local concern
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 313 U.S. 109 - California v. Thompson · 1941Most cited · 312 citing opinions
There are matters of local concern, the regulation of which unavoidably involves some regulation of interstate commerce, but which because of their local character and their number and diversity may never be adequately dealt with by Congress.
How often courts cite the case defining “local concern”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “local concern” — 312 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.