Kiefer-Stewart Co. v. Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
340 U.S. 211 · 1951
Citation profile
752 federal appellate · 162 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,542 later decisions (78 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc (1985), Associated General Contractors of California, Inc. v. California State Council of Carpenters (1983)
752 federal appellate · 162 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 11 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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
reviewedKiefer-Stewart Co. v. Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · American Tobacco Co. v. United States · Fashion Originators' Guild of America, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · Mandeville Island Farms, Inc. v. American Crystal Sugar Co.
Cited together with United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Perma Life Mufflers, Inc. v. International Parts Corp. · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Klor's, Inc. v. Broadway-Hale Stores, Inc. · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey 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 1,542 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such agreements, no less than those to fix minimum prices, cripple the freedom of traders and thereby restrain their ability to sell in accordance with their own judgment.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“common ownership and control does not liberate corporations from the impact of the antitrust laws.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If petitioner and others were guilty of infractions of the antitrust laws, they could be held responsible in appropriate proceedings brought against them by the Government or by injured private persons. The alleged illegal conduct of petitioner, however, could not legalize the unlawful combination by respondents nor immunize them against liability to those they injured.”
12 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.