USM Corp. v. SPS Technologies, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2014
2 federal appellate · 4 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on Walker Process Equipment, Inc. v. Food MacHinery & Chemical Corp. · Moore v. New York Cotton Exchange · Mercoid Corporation v. Mid-Continent Inv Co · Rust v. Johnson · Crowder v. Lash
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Notwithstanding Mercoid, the majority of courts, when faced with this issue, have held that antitrust claims are compulsory counterclaims under Rule 13(a) if the antitrust claim arises out of the same transaction or occurrence as the original claim. The Seventh Circuit has expressly refused to decide the issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“); Borden Co. v. Sylk, 42 F.R.D. 429, 432 (E.D. Pa. 1967) (Mercoid”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.