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State burden on interstate commerce

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Definitions from Case Law

From 221 U.S. 229 - West v. Kansas Natural Gas Co. · 1911Most cited · 349 citing opinions

No state by the exercise of, or by the refusal to exercise, any or all of its powers, may prevent or unreasonably burden interstate commerce within its borders in any sound article thereof. No state by the exercise of, or by the refusal to exercise, any or all of its powers, may substantially discriminate against or directly regulate interstate commerce or the right to carry it on.

How often courts cite the case defining “State burden on interstate commerce”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “State burden on interstate commerce” — 346 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.