Deitrich Loewe et al. v. Martin Lawlor et al.’s Empirical Analysis

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177 federal appellate · 79 district · 36 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 624 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Although some of the means whereby the interstate traffic was to be destroyed were acts within a state and some of them were in themselves as a part of their obvious purpose and effect beyond (he scope of federal authority, still, as we have seen, the acts must be considered as a whole, and the 'plan is open to condemnation, notwithstanding a negligible amount of intrastate business might be affected in carrying it out.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Reading Co. · United States v. Reading Co.

2. ““It is charged that defendants formed a combination to directly restrain plaintiff’s trade; that the trade to be restrained was interstate; that certain means to attain such restraint were contrived to be used and employed by defendants ; and that thereby they injured plaintiff’s property and business.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. People's Tobacco Co. v. American Tobacco Co. · Ware-Kramer Tobacco Co. v. American Tobacco Co.

3. ““Any person who shall be ini ured, in his business or property by any other person or corporation by reason of anything forbidden or declared to be unlawful by this act may sue,” etc.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Buckeye Powder Co. v. E. I. DuPont de Nemours Powder Co. · People's Tobacco Co. v. American Tobacco Co.