United States v. Wise’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
206 federal appellate · 18 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 490 later decisions (35 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2021 · most notably Central Bank of Denver Na v. First Interstate Bank of Denver Na K (1994), Morton v. Ruiz (1974)
206 federal appellate · 18 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 24 (§ 14 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 7 (§ 8 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 3731 · 21 U.S.C. § 301 (Animal Drug Amendments of 1968)
Relies on United States v. United Mine Workers of America · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · American Tobacco Co. v. United States · United States v. Dotterweich · Wong Yang Sung v. McGrath
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 490 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congressional inaction lacks persuasive significance because several equally tenable inferences may be drawn from such inaction, including the inference that the existing legislation already incorporated the offered change.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a corporate officer is subject to prosecution under § 1 of the Sherman Act whenever he knowingly participates in effecting the illegal contract, combination, or conspiracy—be he one who authorizes, orders, or helps perpetrate the crime—re gardless of whether he is acting in a representative capacity.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“statutes are construed by the courts with reference to the circumstances existing at the time of the passage”
5 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.