Leh v. General Petroleum Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 21 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. (1971), Greyhound Corporation v. Mt Hood Stages Inc (1978)
47 federal appellate · 21 district · 3 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
reviewedLeh v. General Petroleum Corp. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 15B (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 16 (§ 5 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 18 (§ 7 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on Emich Motors Corporation v. General Motors Corporation · Leh v. General Petroleum Corp. · Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. v. New Jersey Wood Finishing Co. · Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation and Vanadium Corporation of America v. Frank Nisley, Jr., Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation and Vanadium Corporation of America v. John F. Wade, Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation and Vanadium Corporation of America v. Howard Balsley, Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation and Vanadium Corporation of America v. Unnamed
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the running of the statute of limitations in respect of every private right of action”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * so here we cannot conclude that a private claimant may invoke § 5(b) [16(b)] only if the conspiracy of which he complains has the same breadth and scope in time and participants as the conspiracy described in the government action on which he relies. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * In suits of this kind, the absence of complete identity of defendants may be explained on several grounds unrelated to the question of whether the private claimant's suit is based on matters of which the Government complained.”
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.