Rogers v. Poteet’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 1981 · most notably Missouri Cafeteria, Inc. v. McVey (1951), Therrien v. Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust Co. (1950)
1 federal appellate · 26 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 Thornhill v. Alabama · National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · Associated Press v. United States · Allen Bradley Co. v. Local Union No. 3, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Milk Wagon Drivers Union of Chicago Local 753 v. Meadowmoor Dairies
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Any person who shall create, enter into, become a member of or participate in any pool, trust, agreement, combination, confederation or understanding with any person or persons in restraint of trade or competition in the importation, transportation, manufacture, purchase or sale of any product or commodity in this state, or any article or thing bought or sold whatsoever, shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of a conspiracy in restraint of trade, and shall be punished as provided in sections 416.010 to 416.100, 416.240, 416.260 to 416.290 and 416.400. (R.S. 1939, § 8301)."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An actionable conspiracy . . . may have two aspects: it may consist of an executed agreement either to do an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act in an unlawful manner, whereby the plaintiff is damaged. And so, here, even though the appellants were not guilty of violence, threats, intimidation, malice or breach of contract, and conceding they might have done as individuals all that they did do, yet when all the union members at all the milk plants in the area confederated to reject the milk, the action was conspirative, if the respondent's milk hauling business thereby would have been destroyed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caldwell v. Anderson
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.