antitrust equity suit
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 332 U.S. 392 - International Salt Co. v. United States · 1947Most cited · 2,041 citing opinions
purpose
In an equity suit, the end to be served is not punishment of past transgression, nor is it merely to end specific illegal practices. A public interest served by such civil suits is that they effectively pry open to competition a market that has been closed by defendants' illegal restraints.
How often courts cite the case defining “antitrust equity suit”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “antitrust equity suit” — 2,035 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.