Florists' Nationwide Telephone Delivery Network — America's Phone-Order Florists, Inc. v. Florists' Telegraph Delivery Association’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2006 · most notably McI Communications Corporation McI v. American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1983), Florists' Nationwide Telephone Delivery Network-America's Phone-Order Florists, Inc. v. Florists' Telegraph Delivery Ass'n (1967)
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. · Times-Picayune Pub Co v. United States · 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“contrary to or inconsistent with the jury's resolution . . . of that same issue as implicitly reflected in its general verdict . . . on the damages claim.”
2 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.