Klor's, Inc. v. Broadway-Hale Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
966 federal appellate · 259 district · 113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,373 later decisions (84 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. (1968), Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. (1962)
966 federal appellate · 259 district · 113 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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
reviewedKlor's, Inc. v. Broadway-Hale Stores, Inc. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 45 (§ 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914)
Relies on Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Times-Picayune Pub Co v. United States · United States v. Colgate & Co.
Cited together with Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Continental Inc v. Gte Sylvania Incorporated · Fashion Originators' Guild of America, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · Board of Trade of City of Chicago 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 2,373 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a wide combination consisting of manufacturers, distributors and a retailer.”
55 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[g]roup boycotts, or concerted refusals by traders to deal with other traders, have long been held to be in the forbidden category.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“every contract, combination ... or conspiracy in restraint of trade ...”
15 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.