per se violation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 384 U.S. 127 - United States v. General Motors Corp. · 1966Most cited · 1,132 citing opinions
there are certain agreements or practices which because of their pernicious effect on competition and lack of any redeeming virtue are conclusively presumed to be unreasonable and therefore illegal without elaborate inquiry as to the precise harm they have caused or the business excuse for their use
How often courts cite the case defining “per se violation”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “per se violation” — 1,120 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.