Commerce Clause power
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 317 U.S. 111 - Wickard v. Filburn · 1942Most cited · 2,721 citing opinions
even if appellee's activity be local and though it may not be regarded as commerce, it may still, whatever its nature, be reached by Congress if it exerts a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce and this irrespective of whether such effect is what might at some earlier time have been defined as 'direct' or 'indirect.
How often courts cite the cases defining “Commerce Clause power”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Commerce Clause power” — 3,262 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 · 1913–1942
- ORIGINAL
Congress has power over transportation 'among the several states;' that the power is complete in itself, and that Congress, as an incident to it, may adopt not only means necessary but convenient to its exercise, and the means may have the quality of police regulations.
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