retail
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 326 U.S. 657 - Roland Electrical Co. v. Walling · 1946Most cited · 558 citing opinions
The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels;—opposed to wholesale.' The verb 'retail' means 'To sell in small quantities, as by the single yard, pound, gallon, etc.; to sell directly to the consumer; as, to retail cloth or groceries.'
Webster's New International Dictionary, Unabridged (2d ed., 1938).
How often courts cite the case defining “retail”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “retail” — 558 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.