United States v. Greater Buffalo Press, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 17 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2023 · most notably United States v. General Dynamics Corp. (1974), Vande Zande v. State of Wisconsin Department of Administration R (1995)
22 federal appellate · 17 district · 1 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. § 18 (§ 7 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 29
Relies on Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · Standard Oil Co. of California v. United States · United States v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. · Schine Chain Theatres, Inc. v. United States · United States v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test is met only if two requirements are satisfied: (1) that the resources [of International] were ‘so depleted and the prospect of rehabilitation so remote that it faced the grave probability of a business failure. .’ International Shoe Co. v. F. T. C., 280 U.S. 291, 302 , 50 S.Ct. 89, 93 , 74 L.Ed. 431 and (2) that there was no other prospective purchaser for it. Citizens Publishing Co. v. United States, 394 U.S. 131, 138 , 89 S.Ct. 927, 931-932 , 22 L.Ed.2d 148 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[N]o corporation . . . shall acquire the whole or any part of the assets of another corporation . . . where in any line of commerce in any section of the country, the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t) hat is not the law; the passage of time per se is no barrier to divestiture of stock illegally acquired. United States v. Du Pont, 353 U.S. 586 , 590, (77 S.Ct. 872, 1 L.Ed.2d 1057); 366 U.S. 316 , (81 S.Ct. 1243, 6 L.Ed.2d 318).”
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.