monopoly power
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 384 U.S. 563 - United States v. Grinnell Corp. · 1966Most cited · 5,347 citing opinions
Monopoly power is 'the power to control prices or exclude competition.
How often courts cite the cases defining “monopoly power”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “monopoly power” — 6,745 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 2 definitions, chronological · 1948–1966
- ORIGINAL
monopoly power, whether lawfully or unlawfully acquired, may itself constitute an evil and stand condemned under § 2 even though it remains unexercised. For § 2 of the Act is aimed, inter alia, at the acquisition or retention of effective market control.