practice
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 550 U.S. 45 - Global Crossing Telecommunications, Inc. v. Metrophones Telecommunications, Inc. · 2007Most cited · 162 citing opinions
a "`practice' in connection with the fixing of rates to be charged and prescribing of service to be rendered by the carriers."
Id., at 257 , 51 S.Ct. 458 .
How often courts cite the cases defining “practice”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “practice” — 202 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1928–2007
- ORIGINAL
The word 'practice,' considered generally and without regard to context, is not capable of useful construction. If broadly used, it would cover everything carriers are accustomed to do. Its meaning varies so widely and depends so much upon the connection in which it is used that Congress will be deemed to have intended to confine its application to acts or things belonging to the same general class as those meant by the words associated with it.
Interstate Commerce Act