Carnation Co. v. Pacific Westbound Conference’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
229 federal appellate · 70 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 553 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2022 · most notably City of Lafayette Louisiana v. Louisiana Power & Light Company (1978), Otter Tail Power Co. v. United States (1973)
229 federal appellate · 70 district · 27 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
reviewedCarnation Company, a Corporation v. Pacific Westbound Conference, Far East Conference and the Federal Maritime Commission (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 7 U.S.C. § 601
Relies on United States v. Philadelphia National Bank · Far East Conference v. United States · United States v. Borden Co. · Idaho Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Wirtz · United States Navigation Co. v. Cunard Steamship Co.
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 553 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“antitrust laws represent a fundamental national economic policy”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The creation of an antitrust exemption for rate-making activities which are lawful under the Shipping Act implies that unlawful rate-making activities are not exempt. This Court so interpreted an analogous provision of the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, 50 Stat. 246 , 7 U.S. C. § 601 et seq. (1964 ed.), exempting marketing agreements approved by the Secretary of Agriculture from the antitrust laws. . . . United States v. Borden Co., 308 U.S. 188, 201 , 60 S.Ct. 182, 189 , 84 L.Ed. 181 . [ 383 U.S. 216 -217, 86 S.Ct. 784 .]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a treble-damage action for past conduct cannot be easily reinstituted at a later time. Such claims are subject to the Statute of Limitations and are likely to be barred by the time the Commission acts.”
4 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.