Muenster Butane, Inc., Etc. v. The Stewart Company (Penteco, Inc., Substituted in Place and Stead of the Stewart Company)

How courts have described this case

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• supplier refusal to provide dealer with model of television set intended to discourage dealer free-riding on the promotional efforts of a competing dealer
• “Proof of the antitrust defendant’s ‘substantial’ market power should be a preliminary hurdle in all restricted distributor (vertical restraint) cases.”
• “Comparison of the effects of any vertical restriction on intrabrand and interbrand competition is the critical analysis required”
• defendant’s efforts to restrict intrabrand competition largely ineffectual, intrabrand competition continued unabated

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).