illegal per se
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 340 U.S. 211 - Kiefer-Stewart Co. v. Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. · 1951Most cited · 1,542 citing opinions
price-fixing
For such agreements [to fix maximum resale prices], no less than those to fix minimum prices, cripple the freedom of traders and thereby restrain their ability to sell in accordance with their own judgment. Under the Sherman Act a combination formed for the purpose and with the effect of raising, depressing, fixing, pegging, or stabilizing the price of a commodity in interstate or foreign commerce is illegal per se.
How often courts cite the case defining “illegal per se”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “illegal per se” — 1,539 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.