Schine Chain Theatres, Inc. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
334 U.S. 110 · 1948
Citation profile
315 federal appellate · 66 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 641 later decisions (61 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Cannon v. University of Chicago (1979), United States v. Grinnell Corp. (1966)
315 federal appellate · 66 district · 24 state decisions
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. United States Gypsum Co. · Pinkerton v. United States · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · American Tobacco Co. v. United States · United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.
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 641 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To require divestiture of theatres unlawfully acquired is not to add to the penalties that Congress has provided in the antitrust laws. Like restitution it merely deprives a defendant of the gains from his wrongful conduct. It is an equitable remedy designed in the public interest to undo what could have been prevented had the defendants not outdistanced the government in their unlawful project. * * * ” (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“made threats to build theaters or to open closed ones in order to force sales of theaters in various towns or to prevent entry by an independent operator.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“even an otherwise lawful device may be used as a weapon in restraint of trade.”
2 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.