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Capper-Volstead Act exemption

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 362 U.S. 458 - Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers Association Inc v. United States · 1960Most cited · 381 citing opinions

[The Act indicates] a purpose to make it possible for farmer-producers to organize together, set association policy, fix prices at which their cooperative will sell their produce, and otherwise carry on like a business corporation without thereby violating the antitrust laws. It does not suggest a congressional desire to vest cooperatives with unrestricted power to restrain trade or to achieve monopoly by preying on independent producers, processors or dealers intent on carrying on their own businesses in their own legitimate way.

How often courts cite the case defining “Capper-Volstead Act exemption”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Capper-Volstead Act exemption” — 381 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.