inherent advantages
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 355 U.S. 83 - Schaffer Transportation Co. v. United States · 1957Most cited · 348 citing opinions
The ability of one mode of transportation to operate with a rate lower than competing types of transportation is precisely the sort of 'inherent advantage' that the congressional policy requires the Commission to recognize.
How often courts cite the cases defining “inherent advantages”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “inherent advantages” — 421 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 · 1957–1963
The principal purpose of the reference to the National Transportation Policy was to prevent a carrier from setting a rate which would impair or destroy the inherent advantages of a competing carrier, for example, by setting a rate, below its own fully distributed costs, which would force a competitor with a cost advantage on particular transportation to establish an unprofitable rate in order to attract traffic.