Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe MacHinery Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
706 federal appellate · 272 district · 224 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,176 later decisions (61 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2022 · most notably Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson (1971), Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. (1969)
706 federal appellate · 272 district · 224 state decisions — followed in 36 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
reviewedHanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe Machinery Corp. (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 16 (§ 5 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 2 (§ 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 4 (§ 4 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · American Tobacco Co. v. United States · United States v. Swift & Co. · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Glenshaw Glass Company · Texas Pacific Railway Company v. Abilene Cotton Oil Company
Cited together with Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc · Associated General Contractors of California, Inc. v. California State Council of Carpenters · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, 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 2,176 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would often require additional long and complicated proceedings involving massive evidence and complicated theories.”
77 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“contract, thus making it easy to prove that he has not been damaged....'”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conduct which constituted a continuing violation of the Sherman Act ... [and] inflicted continuing and accumulating harm on Hanover.”
16 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.