Apex Hosiery Co. v. Leader’s Empirical Analysis
310 U.S. 469 · 1940
Citation profile
719 federal appellate · 189 district · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,736 later decisions (159 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2019 · most notably Patterson v. McLean Credit Union (1989), Screws v. United States (1945)
719 federal appellate · 189 district · 79 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedLeader v. Apex Hosiery Co. (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 17 (§ 6 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 29 U.S.C. § 52 (§ 20 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Gibbons v. Ogden
Cited together with Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · United States v. Hutcheson · Allen Bradley Co. v. Local Union No. 3, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · United Mine Workers of America v. M Pennington Local Union No 189 Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America
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 1,736 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“eliminat[es] the competition of employers and employees based on labor conditions regarded as substandard.”
99 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is hereby declared to be illegal.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“From [plaintiff's] point of view, the competitive harm done him by [defendant] is certainly no less because of the presence of an additional link in this particular distribution chain from the producer to the retailer. Here [defendant] discriminated in price between [plaintiff] and [a distributor], and there was evidence from which the jury could conclude that [plaintiff] was harmed competitively when [the distributor's] price advantage was passed on to [plaintiff's] retail competitor . . . . 19 ****** 20 * * * 21 . . . It is clear in this case, however, that [plaintiff] was no mere innocent bystander; he was the principal victim of the price discrimination practiced by [defendant]. [H]e was directly injured . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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