Freeman v. Bee Machine Co.’s Empirical Analysis
319 U.S. 448 · 1943
Citation profile
235 federal appellate · 102 district · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 739 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Granny Goose Foods, Inc. v. Brotherhood of Teamsters & Auto Truck Drivers, Local No. 70 (1974), Tafflin v. Levitt (1990)
235 federal appellate · 102 district · 61 state decisions — followed in 17 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
reviewedBee Mach. Co. v. Freeman (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 28 U.S.C. § 104 · 28 U.S.C. § 112 · 28 U.S.C. § 81
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Eastman Kodak Co of New York v. Southern Photo Materials Co · Neirbo Co. v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Panama Co v. Johnson · American Well Works Company v. Layne & Bowler Company E
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 739 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“thus invoked the jurisdiction of the federal court and submitted to it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Any person who shall be injured in his business or property by reason of anything forbidden in the antitrust laws may sue therefor in any district court of the United States in the district in which the defendant resides or is found or has an agent, without respect to the amount in controversy, and shall recover threefold the damages by him sustained, and the cost of suit, including a reasonable attorney’s fee.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f the federal court has jurisdiction of the removed cause and if the amendment to the complaint could have been made had the suit originated in federal court, the fact that the federal court acquired jurisdiction by removal does not deprive it of power to allow the amendment.”
3 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.