lawful rate
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 284 U.S. 370 - Arizona Grocery Co. v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · 1932Most cited · 879 citing opinions
the legal rate was not made by the statute a lawful rate-it was lawful only if it was reasonable
How often courts cite the case defining “lawful rate”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “lawful rate” — 876 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.