United States v. Rockford Memorial Corporation and Swedishamerican Corporation

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that a geographic market is hard to define but approving a three county area based on defendants’ service area and physician and patient preference for nearby hospitals
• rejecting the contention that nonprofit hospitals would not seek to maximize profits by exercising their market power
• approving six-hospital market in part because “for the most part hospital services are local”
• approving a hospital geographic market defined by where the defendants’ patients came from
• forced to chose between two imperfect market definitions, court of appeals chose the less imperfect one
• 64-72% share of inpatient acute care hospital services market created presumption of illegality in hospital merger

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).