Hawaii v. Standard Oil Co. of Cal.’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
506 federal appellate · 227 district · 108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,574 later decisions (53 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society (1975), Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc (1985)
506 federal appellate · 227 district · 108 state decisions — followed in 22 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
reviewedHawaii v. Standard Oil Co. of California (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 13 (§ 2 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 15A (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 26 (§ 16 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 28 U.S.C. § 1337
Relies on Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe MacHinery Corp. · Perma Life Mufflers, Inc. v. International Parts Corp.
Cited together with Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois · 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. · Blue Shield of Va. v. McCready
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 1,574 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any person who shall be injured in his business or property by reason of anything forbidden in the antitrust laws”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Congress did not intend the antitrust laws to provide a remedy in damages for all injuries that might conceivably be traced to an antitrust violation.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“threatened loss or damage by a violation of the antitrust laws.”
23 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.