fully distributed costs
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 392 U.S. 571 - American Commercial Lines, Inc. v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · 1968Most cited · 86 citing opinions
out-of-pocket costs plus a revenue-ton and revenue ton-mile distribution of the constant costs, including deficits, that indicate the revenue necessary to a fair return on the traffic, disregarding ability to pay
How often courts cite the case defining “fully distributed costs”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “fully distributed costs” — 86 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.