Maltz v. Sax’s Empirical Analysis
134 F.2d 2 · 1943
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably The Flintkote Company, a Corporation v. Elmer Lysfjord and Walter R. Waldron, Doing Business as Aabeta Co. (1957), Karseal Corp. v. Richfield Oil Corp. (1955)
29 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
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
Relies on Morton Salt Co. v. G. S. Suppiger Co. · Keystone Driller Co. v. General Excavator Co. · Keogh v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · United States v. Cooper Corp. · Continental Wall Paper Company v. Louis Voight & Sons Company
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It may be as well, or better, to state as the ground for denying judgment to plaintiff in this law action, that he was in particeps criminis with those who bought his gambling devices. Rather than to say relief is denied because he comes into court with unclean-hands, he asks damages for a business that malees him a criminal partner to gamblers and his part is to aid a gambling business.” supra, 134 F.2d at page 5 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Our conclusion is that, for two reasons, plaintiff can. not recover: First, it comes into court with unclean hands ; second, it has no legal right, for the violation of which it may recover damages because of defendants’ combination in violation, of Section 15 of the Sherman Anti-Trust law.” supra, 134 F.2d at page 5 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Any person who shall be injured in his business or property by reason of anything forbidden in the antitrust laws may sue therefor in any district court. . . . ””
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.