trade
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 286 U.S. 427 - Atlantic Cleaners & Dyers, Inc. v. United States · 1932Most cited · 1,252 citing opinions
[T]he word 'trade' is often, and indeed generally, used in a broader sense, as equivalent to occupation, employment, or business, whether manual or mercantile. Wherever any occupation, employment, or business is carried on for the purpose of profit, or gain, or a livelihood, not in the liberal arts or in the learned professions, it is constantly called a trade.
How often courts cite the cases defining “trade”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “trade” — 2,085 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1932–1950
Trade' is often, and indeed generally, used in a broader sense, as equivalent to occupation, employment, or business, whether manual or mercantile. Wherever any occupation, employment, or business is carried on for the purpose of profit, or gain or a livelihood, not in the liberal arts or in the learned professions, it is constantly called a trade. It is in that broad sense that 'trade' is used in the Sherman Act.