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incidental effect on interstate commerce

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 268 U.S. 189 - Shafer v. Farmers Grain Co. · 1925Most cited · 406 citing opinions

a state statute enacted for admissible state purposes and which affects interstate commerce only incidentally and remotely is not a prohibited state regulation in the sense of that clause

How often courts cite the case defining “incidental effect on interstate commerce”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “incidental effect on interstate commerce” — 403 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.