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commerce between the States

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 77 U.S. 557 - The Daniel Ball · 1870Most cited · 939 citing opinions

whenever a commodity has begun to move as an article of trade from one State to another, commerce in that commodity between the States has commenced

How often courts cite the case defining “commerce between the States”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “commerce between the States” — 934 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.