Commerce with foreign nations
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 55 U.S. 568 - Veazie v. Moor · 1852Most cited · 74 citing opinions
Commerce with foreign nations, must signify commerce which in some sense is necessarily connected with these nations, transactions which either immediately, or at some stage of their progress, must be extraterritorial. The phrase can never be applied to transactions wholly internal, between citizens of the same community, or to a polity and laws whose ends and purposes and operations are restricted to the territory and soil and jurisdiction of such community.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Commerce with foreign nations” — 74 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.