state as trader
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
When a state enters the market place seeking customers it divests itself of its quasi sovereignty pro tanto, and takes on the character of a trader, so far, at least, as the taxing power of the federal government is concerned.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “state as trader” — 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.