Federal Trade Commission v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
269 federal appellate · 35 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 484 later decisions (30 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2017 · most notably Farrar v. Hobby (1992), Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co. (1981)
269 federal appellate · 35 district · 10 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
reviewedAnheuser-Busch, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 13 (§ 2 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 13A (Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on Federal Trade Commission v. Cement Institute · Federal Trade Commission v. Morton Salt Co. · Federal Trade Commission v. Ruberoid Co. · Corn Products Refining Co. v. Federal Trade Commission
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 484 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, in the course of such commerce, either directly or indirectly, to discriminate in price between different purchasers of commodities of like grade and quality, where either or any of the purchases involved in such discrimination are in commerce, . . . and where the effect of such discrimination may be substantially to lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in any line of commerce, or to injure, destroy, or prevent competition with any person who either grants or knowingly receives the benefit of such discrimination, or with customers of either of them. . . .”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] price discrimination within the meaning of [the statute] is merely a price difference.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]hat 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.”
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.