running a corner
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 226 U.S. 525 - United States v. James a Patten · 1913Most cited · 624 citing opinions
Running a corner' consists, broadly speaking, in acquiring control of all or the dominant portion of a commodity, with the purpose of artificially enhancing the price; one of the important features of which is the purchase for future delivery, coupled with a withholding from sale for a limited time.
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “running a corner” — 622 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.