import
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 340 U.S. 511 - Canton Co v. Rogan · 1951Most cited · 135 citing opinions
To import means to bring into the country. Those acts begin and end at water's edge.
How often courts cite the case defining “import”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “import” — 135 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.