Fraser’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022
4 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 Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Copperweld Corporation v. Independence Tube Corporation · Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority · United States v. Philadelphia National Bank
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there is no existing market, there can be no reduction in the level of competition. * * * Competition that does not exist cannot be decreased. The creation of the [Major Soccer League] did not reduce competition in an existing market because when the company was formed there was no active market for Division I professional soccer in the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“That a stockholder may be insulated by Copperweld when making ordinary governance decisions does not mean automatic protection when the stockholder is also an entrepreneur separately contracting with the company.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“In section 2 cases, the wrongful act is usually one designed to exclude competitors from the market (e.g., predatory price, exclusive dealing).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.