Valley Liquors, Inc., an Illinois Corporation v. Renfield Importers, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the lowest possible market share legally sufficient to sustain a finding of monopolization is somewhere between 17% and 25%
• finding “70%-75% of market share constitutes market power ... and that a 20%-25% market share or less does not constitute market power”
• finding “[m]arket power is normally inferred from the possession of a substantial percentage of the sales in a market carefully defined in terms , of both product and geography”
• competitors’ price complaints coupled with separate meetings with manufacturer before plaintiffs termination were insufficient to go to a jury
• “Alleged price fixing between a manufacturer and dis- tributors, however, is more properly termed a ‘vertical’ con- spiracy.”
• discussing change effected by Supreme Court’s 1986 rulings

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).