United States v. Columbia Steel Co.’s Empirical Analysis
334 U.S. 495 · 1948
Citation profile
366 federal appellate · 129 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 930 later decisions (60 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015 · most notably Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. (1962), United States v. W. T. Grant Co. (1953)
366 federal appellate · 129 district · 21 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 29
Relies on United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · American Tobacco Co. v. United States · International Salt 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 930 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * A restraint may be unreasonable either because a restraint otherwise reasonable is accompanied with a specific intent to accomplish a forbidden restraint or because it falls within the class of restraints that are illegal per se. For example, where a complaint charges that the defendants have engaged in price fixing, or have concertedly refused to deal with non-members of an association, or have licensed a patented device on condition that unpatented materials be employed in conjunction with the patented device, then the amount of commerce involved is immaterial because such restraints are illegal per se.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the relative effect of percentage command of a market varies with the setting in which that factor is placed”
7 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 declared to .be illegal. * * * ””
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.