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zone of reasonableness

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 294 U.S. 499 - United States v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific R. · 1935Most cited · 836 citing opinions

A zone of reasonableness exists between maxima and minima within which a carrier is ordinarily free to adjust its charges for itself.

How often courts cite the case defining “zone of reasonableness”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “zone of reasonableness” — 830 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.