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monopolize

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Definitions from Case Law

From 328 U.S. 781 - American Tobacco Co. v. United States · 1946Most cited · 2,921 citing opinions

it is the crime of monopolizing, under § 2 of the Sherman Act, for parties to combine or conspire to acquire or maintain the power to exclude competitors from any part of the trade or commerce among the several states or with foreign nations, provided they also have such a power that they are able, as a group, to exclude actual or potential competitors from the field and provided that they have the intent and purpose to exercise that power

How often courts cite the case defining “monopolize”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “monopolize” — 2,914 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.