monopoly
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 328 U.S. 781 - American Tobacco Co. v. United States · 1946Most cited · 2,921 citing opinions
The material consideration in determining whether a monopoly exists is not that prices are raised and that competition actually is excluded but that power exists to raise prices or to exclude competition when it is desired to do so.
How often courts cite the case defining “monopoly”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “monopoly” — 2,914 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.