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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 218 U.S. 406 - Western Union Telegraph Company v. Commercial Milling Company · 1910Most cited · 133 citing opinions

interstate commerce

Intercourse between the states by the telegraph is interstate commerce.

How often courts cite the case defining “Telegraph”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Telegraph” — 133 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.