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To monopolize

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 193 U.S. 197 - Northern Securities Company v. United States · 1904Most cited · 1,242 citing opinions

the combining or bringing together, in the hands of one person or set of persons, of the control of, or the power to control, several rival and competing businesses, to the end that competition between them may be suppressed.

How often courts cite the case defining “To monopolize”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “To monopolize” — 1,241 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.