boycott
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 509 U.S. 764 - Hartford Fire Insurance Co v. California Merrett Underwriting Agency Management Limited · 1993Most cited · 1,180 citing opinions
[t]o combine in refusing to hold relations' ") (citation omitted).
How the Supreme Court has restated “boycott”
Each Supreme Court definition of “boycott,” sized by how often later courts cited it. “Change” is measured by wording overlap with earlier definitions — a rough signal, not a semantic judgment.
How often courts cite the cases defining “boycott”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “boycott” — 1,166 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 4 definitions, chronological · 1993–1993
just those refusals to deal that are "unrelated" or "collateral" to the objective sought by those refusing to deal.
[t]o combine in refusing to hold relations of any kind, social or commercial, public or private, with (a neighbour), on account of political or other differences, so as to punish him for the position he has taken up, or coerce him into abandoning it." 2 The Oxford English Dictionary 468 (2d ed. 1989).
[tjo combine in refusing to hold relations of any kind, social or commercial, public or private, with (a neighbour), on account of political or other differences, so as to punish him for the position he has taken up, or coerce him into abandoning it." 2 Oxford English Dictionary 468 (2d ed. 1989).