Bruce's Juices, Inc. v. American Can Co.’s Empirical Analysis
330 U.S. 743 · 1947
Citation profile
280 federal appellate · 72 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 685 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2016 · most notably Truett Payne Company Inc v. Chrysler Motors Corporation (1981), Kelly v. Kosuga (1959)
280 federal appellate · 72 district · 81 state decisions — followed in 20 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 United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n · Mercoid Corporation v. Mid-Continent Inv Co · Morton Salt Co. v. G. S. Suppiger Co. · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Sola Electric Co. v. Jefferson Electric Co.
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 685 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But when the contract sued upon is not intrinsically illegal, the Court has refused to allow property to be obtained under a contract of sale without enforcing the duty to pay for it because of violations of the Sherman Act not inhering in the particular contract in suit and has reaffirmed the “doctrine that ‘where a statute creates a new offense and denounces the penalty, or gives a new right and declares the remedy, the punishment or the remedy can be only that which the statute prescribes.’ ” D.R. Wilder Mfg. Co. v. Corn Products Refining Co., 236 U.S. 165 , 174-175 [ 35 S.Ct. 398 , 401, 59 L.Ed. 520 ];' Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co., 184 U.S. 540 [ 22 S.Ct. 431 , 46 L.Ed. 679 ].”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It shall be unlawful for any person . . . to discriminate in price between Different purchasers of commodities . . . where Such commodities are sold for use, consumption, or resale within the United States.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The Act prescribes sanctions, and it does not make uncollectibility of the purchase price one of them.”
6 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.