Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
306 U.S. 208 · 1939
Citation profile
590 federal appellate · 134 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,615 later decisions (106 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably United States v. United States Gypsum Co. (1948), First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. (1968)
590 federal appellate · 134 district · 76 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. United States · Schenck v. United States · Moore v. New York Cotton Exchange · Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering
Cited together with Theatre Enterprises, Inc. v. Paramount Film Distributing Corp. · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · American Tobacco Co. v. United States · United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. · United States v. Masonite Corp.
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 1,615 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Acceptance by competitors, without previous agreement, of an invitation to participate in a plan, the necessary consequence of which, if carried out, is restraint of interstate commerce, is sufficient to establish an unlawful conspiracy under the Sherman Act.”
36 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(W)ithout substantially unanimous action with respect to the restrictions for any given territory there is a risk of a substantial loss of the business and good will of the subsequent run and independent exhibitors, but ... with it there was the prospect of increased profits.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“itself persuasive that their testimony, if given, would have been unfavorable”
7 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.