horizontal price fixing
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 341 U.S. 384 - Schwegmann Bros. v. Calvert Distillers Corp. · 1951Most cited · 1,499 citing opinions
When retailers are forced to abandon price competition, they are driven into a compact in violation of the spirit of the proviso which forbids 'horizontal' price fixing. A real sanction can be given the prohibitions of the proviso only if the price maintenance power granted a distributor is limited to voluntary engagements.
How often courts cite the cases defining “horizontal price fixing”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “horizontal price fixing” — 2,039 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 · 1951–1956
price fixing by those in competition with each other at the same functional level