what was the outcome of the supreme court’s decision in the 1911 standard oil case
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1911),[1] was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States found Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey guilty of monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions. The Court's remedy was to divide Standard Oil into several geographically separate and eventually competing firms.