Scanlan v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
388 F.2d 918 · 1968
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 1997 · most notably Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, Inc., and the House of Seagram, Inc. v. Hawaiian Oke and Liquors, Ltd., McKesson and Robbins, Inc. v. Hawaiian Oke and Liquors, Ltd., Barton Distilling Company v. Hawaiian Oke and Liquors, Ltd. (1969), Industrial Building Materials, Inc. v. Interchemical Corp. (1970)
33 federal appellate · 6 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.
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 14 (§ 3 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on United States v. Colgate & Co. · Costello v. United States · Federal Power Commission v. Southern California Edison Co. · Ace Beer Distributors, Inc. v. Kohn, Inc., the Kohn Brewery Co., Pauline Kohn, Adam J. Kohn, Stephen Zarich and Peter Zarich, Ace Beer Distributors, Inc. v. The Stroh Brewery Company and Morton R. Engel · Walker Distributing Co. v. Lucky Lager Brewing 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . to drive appellant [plaintiff] out of business . . . such a conspiracy to substitute one distributor for another even if proven, [would not] violate the antitrust laws.” 388 F.2d at 920 .”
1 later decision 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.