retail establishment
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 383 U.S. 190 - Idaho Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Wirtz · 1966Most cited · 545 citing opinions
two-step test
it is generally helpful to ask first whether the sale of a particular type of goods or services can ever qualify as retail whatever the terms of sale; if and only if the answer is affirmative is it then necessary to determine the terms or circumstances that make a sale of those goods or services a retail sale
How often courts cite the case defining “retail establishment”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “retail establishment” — 542 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.