Standard Oil Co. v. Federal Trade Commission’s Empirical Analysis
340 U.S. 231 · 1951
Citation profile
346 federal appellate · 41 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 610 later decisions (49 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015 · most notably United States v. United States Gypsum Co. (1978), Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio (1989)
346 federal appellate · 41 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedStandard Oil Co. v. Federal Trade Commission (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 12 (§ 1 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 13 (§ 2 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 47 U.S.C. § 221
Relies on Federal Trade Commission v. Cement Institute · Walling v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Standard Oil Co. of California v. United States · Associated Press v. United States · Federal Trade Commission v. Morton Salt 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 610 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he heart of our national economic policy long has been faith in the value of competition,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall prevent a seller rebutting the prima facie case thus made by showing that his lower price or the furnishing of services or facilities to any purchaser or purchasers was made in good faith to meet an equally low price of a competitor, or the services or facilities furnished by a competitor.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress did not seek by the Robinson-Patman Act either to abolish competition or so radically to curtail it that a seller would have no substantial right of self-defense against a price raid by a competitor”
4 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.