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Goods

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 326 U.S. 657 - Roland Electrical Co. v. Walling · 1946Most cited · 558 citing opinions

means goods (including ships and marine equipment), wares, products, commodities, merchandise, or articles or subjects of commerce of any character, or any part or ingredient thereof, but does not include goods after their delivery into the actual physical possession of the ultimate consumer thereof other than a producer, manufacture, or processor thereof.

How often courts cite the cases defining “Goods”

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Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “Goods” — 891 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 2 definitions, chronological · 1945–1946

  1. telegraphic messages are clearly 'subjects of commerce' and hence...are 'goods' under this Act