incipiency
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 316 U.S. 149 - Federal Trade Commission v. Raladam Co. · 1942Most cited · 184 citing opinions
One of the objects of the Act creating the Federal Trade Commission was to prevent potential injury by stopping unfair methods of competition in their incipiency.
How often courts cite the case defining “incipiency”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “incipiency” — 184 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.