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Common carrier in substance

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From 234 U.S. 548 - Pipe Line Cases · 1914Most cited · 62 citing opinions

The control of Congress over commerce among the states cannot be made a means of exercising powers not intrusted to it by the Constitution, but it may require those who are common carriers in substance to become so in form. ... those lines that we are considering are common carriers now in everything but form. They carry everybody's oil to a market, although they compel outsiders to sell it before taking it into their pipes.