Standard Oil Standard Oil Standard Oil Co. Inc. was an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller and Henry Flagler as a corporation in Ohio, it was the largest oil refinery in the world of its time. Its history as one of the world's first and largest multinational corporations ended in 1911, when the United States Supreme Court, in a landmark case, ruled that Standard Oil was an illegal monopoly. Standard Oil dominated the oil products market initially through horizontal integration in the refining sector, then, in later years vertical integration; the company was
Standard Oil Co. v. United States (Standard Stations) Standard Oil Co. v. United States (Standard Stations) Standard Oil Co. v. United States, 337 U.S. 293 (1949), more commonly referred to as the "Standard Stations" case (because that was the brand name of the company whose exclusive dealing contracts were held unlawful in the case. and also because there is a 1911 case with the same caption "Standard Oil Co. v. United States"), is a 1947 decision of the United States Supreme Court in which requirements contracts for gasoline stations (Standard Stations) were held to violate section 3 of the Clayton Act. That statute prohibits selling goods on the