reciprocal trading
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 380 U.S. 592 - Federal Trade Commission v. Consolidated Foods Corp. · 1965Most cited · 203 citing opinions
The practice results in 'an irrelevant and alien factor,' intruding into the choice among competing products, creating at the least 'a priority on the business at equal prices.' A threatened withdrawal of orders if products of an affiliate cease being bought, as well as a conditioning of future purchases on the receipt of orders for products of that affiliate is an anti-competitive practice.
How often courts cite the case defining “reciprocal trading”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “reciprocal trading” — 203 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.