incipiency doctrine
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 344 U.S. 392 - Federal Trade Commission v. Motion Picture Advertising Service Co. · 1953Most cited · 399 citing opinions
the Federal Trade Commission Act was designed to supplement and bolster the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act... to stop in their incipiency acts and practices which, when full blown, would violate those Acts, as well as to condemn as 'unfair method of competition' existing violations of them
How often courts cite the case defining “incipiency doctrine”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “incipiency doctrine” — 396 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.