Continental Ore Company v. Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
1,047 federal appellate · 247 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,296 later decisions (63 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation (1986), Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. (1969)
1,047 federal appellate · 247 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 12 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
reviewedContinental Ore Co. v. Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. (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)
Relies on United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc. · Parker v. Brown
Cited together with American Tobacco Co. v. United States · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. · Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc.
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 2,296 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“plaintiffs should be given the full benefit of their proof without tightly compartmentalizing the various factual components and wiping the slate clean after scrutiny of each.”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'bound to view the evidence in the light most favorable to [the plaintiff] and to give [him] the benefit of all inferences which the evidence fairly supports, even though contrary inferences might reasonably be drawn.'”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . [Acts] which are themselves legal lose that character when they become constituent elements of an unlawful scheme.”
12 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.