Salerno v. American League of Professional Baseball Clubs’s Empirical Analysis
429 F.2d 1003 · 1970
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably Flood v. Kuhn (1972), United States v. Caldwell (1974)
34 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on San Diego Building Trades Council v. Garmon · Boys Markets, Inc. v. Retail Clerks Union, Local 770 · Klor's, Inc. v. Broadway-Hale Stores, Inc. · United Mine Workers of America v. M Pennington Local Union No 189 Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America · Fashion Originators' Guild of America, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission
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.
“'unrealistic', 'inconsistent' and 'illogical”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a clear causal connection between the violation alleged and the injuries allegedly suffered,”
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.