Virtual Maintenance, Inc. v. Prime Computer, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
11 F.3d 660 · 1993
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Rebel Oil Co. v. Atlantic Richfield Co. (1995), Queen City Pizza, Inc. v. Domino's Pizza, Inc. (1997)
13 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Services, Inc. · Griffin v. United States · Jefferson Parish Hospital District No. 2 v. Hyde · Kliewer v. New Jersey
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) There is a tying arrangement between two distinct products or services; 2) The seller has sufficient economic power in the tying market to restrain appreciably competition in the tied product market; and 3) The amount of commerce affected is not insubstantial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Like Kodak, Prime is able to exercise control over the sale of software support because of its exclusive distribution license from Ford, and Ford's requirement that its automotive design suppliers use the most current version of Prime's software support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the sale of software revisions and support of software necessary to do business with Ford Motor Company.”
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.