burden upon commerce
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 306 U.S. 167 - Southern Pac. Co. v. Gallagher · 1939Most cited · 422 citing opinions
The prohibited burden upon commerce between the states is created by state interference with that commerce, a matter distinct from the expense of doing business. A discrimination against it, or a tax on its operations as such, is an interference. A tax on property or upon a taxable event in the state, apart from operation, does not interfere.
How often courts cite the case defining “burden upon commerce”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “burden upon commerce” — 425 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.