Arthur v. Microsoft Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably Freeman Industries, LLC v. Eastman Chemical Co. (2005), Webb v. American Employers Group (2004)
2 federal appellate · 12 district · 35 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 12 (§ 1 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 2 (§ 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois · Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe MacHinery Corp. · California v. Arc America Corp. · Kansas v. UtiliCorp United Inc. · International Fidelity Insurance v. Wilson
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.
“The purpose of the Act is to provide consumers with protection against unlawful practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce which directly or indirectly affects the people of Nebraska”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Act allows any person who is injured by a violation of §§ 59-1602 to 59-1606 which directly or indirectly affects the people of Nebraska to bring a civil action to recover damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he goal [of the Nebraska CPA] is to establish a uniform standard of conduct so that businesses will know what conduct is permitted and to protect the consumer from illegal conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.