commodity future
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 350 U.S. 46 - Corn Products Refining Company v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue · 1955Most cited · 1,577 citing opinions
A commodity future is a contract to purchase some fixed amount of a commodity at a future date for a fixed price.
How often courts cite the case defining “commodity future”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “commodity future” — 1,571 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.