commodity contract
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 300 U.S. 324 - Holyoke Water Power Co. v. American Writing Paper Co. · 1937Most cited · 83 citing opinions
If the contract is for the delivery of a chattel or a specific commodity or substance, the law does not apply. If it is bona fide for so many carats of diamonds or so many ounces of gold as bullion, the specific contract must be performed... But if terms which naturally import such a contract are used by way of evasion, and money only is intended, the law reaches the case.
How often courts cite the case defining “commodity contract”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “commodity contract” — 83 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.