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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 329 U.S. 69 - Richfield Oil Corporation v. State Board of Equalization · 1946Most cited · 369 citing opinions
goods do not cease to be part of the general mass of property in the state, subject, as such, to its jurisdiction, and to taxation in the usual way, until they have been shipped, or entered with a common carrier for transportation, to another state, or have been started upon such transportation in a continuous route or journey
How the Supreme Court has restated “export”
Each Supreme Court definition of “export,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “export”
Court decisions citing the 3 opinions that defined “export” — 554 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 3 definitions, chronological · 1913–1951
- ORIGINAL
Two acts are essential to constitute export in the legal sense, a shipment from this country to a foreign country, and the landing of the goods in such foreign country.
To export means to carry or send abroad. Those acts begin and end at water's edge.