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direct burdens upon interstate commerce

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Definitions from Case Law

From 290 U.S. 1 - Minnesota v. Blasius · 1933Most cited · 392 citing opinions

The states may not impose direct burdens upon interstate commerce; that is, they may not regulate or restrain that which from its nature should be under the control of the one authority and be free from restriction save as it is governed in the manner that the national legislature constitutionally ordains.

How often courts cite the case defining “direct burdens upon interstate commerce”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “direct burdens upon interstate commerce” — 392 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.