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power to regulate commerce

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 312 U.S. 100 - United States v. Darby · 1941Most cited · 2,621 citing opinions

The power to regulate commerce is the power 'to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed'. It extends not only to those regulations which aid, foster and protect the commerce, but embraces those which prohibit it.

How often courts cite the case defining “power to regulate commerce”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “power to regulate commerce” — 2,616 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.