price
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 278 U.S. 175 - Lash's Products Co. v. United States · 1929Most cited · 222 citing opinions
tax on sales
The price is the total sum paid for the goods. The amount added because of the tax is paid to get the goods and for nothing else. Therefore it is part of the price.
How often courts cite the case defining “price”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “price” — 222 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.