Mercantile
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 216 U.S. 439 - Toxaway Hotel Co. v. Smathers & Co. · 1910Most cited · 42 citing opinions
Mercantile' is defined 'as having to do with trade or commerce; of or pertaining to merchants, or the traffic carried on by merchants' (Century dictionary). To be principally engaged in a mercantile pursuit, one must be carrying on commerce in some of its branches.
How often courts cite the case defining “Mercantile”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Mercantile” — 42 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.