highway use fee
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 306 U.S. 72 - Dixie Ohio Express Co. v. State Revenue Commission · 1939Most cited · 75 citing opinions
consistently with the commerce clause, a State may impose upon vehicles used exclusively for interstate transportation a fair and reasonable tax as compensation for the privilege of using its highways for that purpose. ... where a state at its own expense furnishes special facilities for the use of those engaged in commerce, interstate as well as domestic, it may exact compensation therefor. The amount of the charges and the method of collection are primarily for determination by the state itself; and so long as they are reasonable and are fixed according to some uniform, fair, and practical standard, they constitute no burden on interstate commerce.
How often courts cite the case defining “highway use fee”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “highway use fee” — 75 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.