United States v. American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers’s Empirical Analysis
317 F.2d 90 · 1963
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2008
12 federal appellate ·
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
Relationships
Relies on Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · De Beers Consol Mines v. United States · Sam Fox Publishing Company v. United States · United States v. United States · St. Regis Paper Co. v. United States
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the controlling force of the Expediting Act [32 Stat. 823 (1903)] in routing all appeals from final judgments [in actions by the Government under the antitrust laws] to the Supreme Court . . .”
1 later decision 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.