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nongovernmental functions

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 292 U.S. 360 - Ohio v. Helvering · 1934Most cited · 366 citing opinions

Whenever a state engages in a business of a private nature, it exercises nongovernmental functions, and the business, though conducted by the state, is not immune from the exercise of the power of taxation which the Constitution vests in the Congress.

How often courts cite the case defining “nongovernmental functions”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “nongovernmental functions” — 365 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.