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interstate or intrastate commerce

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 275 U.S. 257 - Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Standard Oil Co. of Kentucky · 1927Most cited · 56 citing opinions

The question whether commerce is interstate or intrastate must be determined by the essential character of the commerce, and not by mere billing or forms of contract, although that may be one of a group of circumstances tending to show such character

How often courts cite the case defining “interstate or intrastate commerce”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “interstate or intrastate commerce” — 234 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.