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market power

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 394 U.S. 495 - Fortner Enterprises, Inc. v. United States Steel Corp. · 1969Most cited · 1,456 citing opinions

Market power is usually stated to be the ability of a single seller to raise price and restrict output, for reduced output is the almost inevitable result of higher prices.

How often courts cite the case defining “market power”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “market power” — 1,444 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.