voluntary allowances
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 437 U.S. 117 - Exxon Corporation v. Governor of Maryland Shell Oil Company · 1978Most cited · 1,665 citing opinions
temporary price reductions granted by the oil companies to independent dealers who are injured by local competitive price reductions of competing retailers.
How often courts cite the case defining “voluntary allowances”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “voluntary allowances” — 1,662 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.