United States v. E. C. Knight Co.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

157 federal appellate · 63 district · 103 state decisions

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

1. “Commerce succeeds to manufacture, and is not a part of it.”

   30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hammer v. Dagenhart · Dahnke-Walker Milling Co. v. Bondurant

2. “"Section 23 of our Constitution forbids the granting of exclusive and irrevocable special privileges and immunities by the Legislature, and section 103 thereof, which is a provision new to the Constitution of 1901, enjoins positively upon the Legislature the duty of providing by law for the `regulation, prohibition, or reasonable restraint of common carriers, partnerships, associations, trusts, monopolies, and combinations of capital, so as to prevent them or any of them from making scarce articles of necessity, or increasing unreasonably the costs thereof to the consumer, or preventing reasonable competition in any trade, calling or business.' In pursuance of this latter provision the Legislature of this state, following the lead of other states, has passed the act now embraced in sections 7579, 7580, and 7581 of the Code, patterned after a similar statute in Illinois and other states and akin to the federal statute, known as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of July 2, 1890, c. 647, 26 Stat. 209 (U.S.Comp.St. 1901, p. 3200). "Said section 7579 of our Code thus provides: `Any person or corporation who engages or agrees with other persons or corporations, or enters into, directly or indirectly, any combination, pool, or trust, or confederation to regulate or fix the price of any article or commodity to be sold or produced within this state, or ... must, on conviction, be fined,' etc. "Section 7581 reads: `Any person or corporation, domestic or foreign, which shall restrain or attemp”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lowenstein v. Evans · Bigelow v. Calumet & Hecla Mining Co.

3. “Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce * * * shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor * * *.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States Tobacco Co. v. American Tobacco Co. · Klor's, Inc. v. Broadway-Hale Stores, Inc.