In Re Microsoft Corp. Antitrust Litigation’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 3 district ·

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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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Otherwise, plaintiffs could circumvent the requirements of a conspiracy to monopolize claim, including the requirement that a defendant be shown to have acted with the specific intent to monopolize, simply by characterizing their claim as one arising under section 1, whose elements of proof are not as stringent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. No. 01-2458

2. “United States purchasers, between October 20, 1993 and the present, of Microsoft Windows or MS DOS operating software... installed and sold with personal computers compatible with Intel x86/Pentium architecture purchased directly from Compaq, Dell, or [PB].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. No. 01-2458

3. “[t]he only thing that... distinguishes [Compaq and Dell] from other OEMs is the alacrity with which they acquiesced in accepting [the licensing] agreements to obtain relatively favorable prices from Microsoft for its products.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. No. 01-2458