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State regulation

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Definitions from Case Law

From 245 U.S. 484 - Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Texas · 1918Most cited · 8 citing opinions

interstate train schedules

On its face the order as applied was an interference with such commerce. It undertook to fix the time allowed for stops in the course of interstate transit. It was a serious interference, for it made the defendant liable for an interstate train not starting on schedule time, when the train did not come into the defendant's hands, from another company in another State, until too late.

How often courts cite the case defining “State regulation”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “State regulation” — 19 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.