potential competitor
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 376 U.S. 651 - United States v. El Paso Natural Gas Co. · 1964Most cited · 1,040 citing opinions
Unsuccessful bidders are no less competitors than the successful one. The presence of two or more suppliers gives buyers a choice.
How often courts cite the case defining “potential competitor”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “potential competitor” — 1,034 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.