Maple Flooring Mfrs' Ass'n v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
268 U.S. 563 · 1925
Citation profile
185 federal appellate · 46 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 481 later decisions (66 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. (1940), Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Services, Inc. (1992)
185 federal appellate · 46 district · 23 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 Eastern States Retail Lumber Dealers' Ass'n v. United States · United States v. United States Steel Corp. · American Column & Lumber Co. v. United States · United States v. American Linseed Oil Co.
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 481 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t should be remembered that this court has often announced that each case arising under the Sherman Act must be determined upon the particular facts disclosed by the record, and that the opinions in those cases must be read in the light of their facts and of a clear recognition of the essential differences in the facts of those cases, and in the facts of any new case to which the rule of earlier decisions is to be applied.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“avoid the waste which inevitably attends the unintelligent conduct of economic enterprise”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“had resulted, or would necessarily result, in tending arbitrarily to lessen production or increase prices”
2 later decisions 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.