tying agreements
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 371 U.S. 38 - United States v. Loew's Inc. · 1962Most cited · 810 citing opinions
Tying agreements serve hardly any purpose beyond the suppression of competition. They are an object of anti-trust concern for two reasons—they may force buyers into giving up the purchase of substitutes for the tied product, and they may destroy the free access of competing suppliers of the tied product to the consuming market.
How often courts cite the cases defining “tying agreements”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “tying agreements” — 895 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 · 1957–1962
- ORIGINAL
Tying agreements by which the sale of one commodity is conditioned on the purchase of another have been repeatedly condemned under the antitrust laws, since they serve no purpose beyond the suppression of competition.