Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
1,857 federal appellate · 435 district · 371 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,403 later decisions (99 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Anderson v. City of Bessemer City (1985), Bell v. Wolfish (1979)
1,857 federal appellate · 435 district · 371 state decisions — followed in 35 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
reviewedHazeltine Research, Inc., and Counter-Defendant v. Zenith Radio Corporation, and Counter-Claimant, Hazeltine Corporation, and Counter-Defendant v. Zenith Radio Corporation, and Counter-Claimant (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 15B (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 26 (§ 16 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Duberstein D Stanton · Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co. · Pennoyer v. Neff
Cited together with United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. · Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc · Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co. · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City
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 4,403 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In applying the clearly erroneous standard to the findings of a district court sitting without a jury, appellate courts must constantly have in mind that their function is not to decide factual issues de novo.”
91 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conclude as a matter of just and reasonable inference from the proof of defendants' wrongful acts and their tendency to injure plaintiffs' business, and from the evidence of the decline in prices, profits and values, not shown to be attributable to other causes, that defendants' wrongful acts had caused damage to the plaintiffs.”
50 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the type of loss that the claimed violations ... would be likely to cause.”
49 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.