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Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 299 U.S. 334 - Kentucky Whip & Collar Co. v. Illinois Central Railroad · 1937Most cited · 269 citing opinions
The commerce clause confers upon the Congress 'the power to regulate, that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed.' This power 'is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations, other than are prescribed in the constitution.
How often courts cite the case defining “regulate”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “regulate” — 266 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.