Marjorie Webster Junior College, Inc. v. Middle States Ass'n of Colleges & Secondary Schools, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
432 F.2d 650 · 1970
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 12 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 16 Cal. 3d 920 - Marin County Board of Realtors, Inc. v. Palsson (1976), 8 Cal. 3d 320 - People v. Barksdale (1972)
44 federal appellate · 12 district · 12 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc. · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · United States v. Carolene Products 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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“judicial review of [Middle States]'s standards should accord substantial deference to [Middle State]'s judgment regarding the ends that it serves and the means most appropriate to those ends.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“(T)he proscriptions of the Sherman Act were 'tailored * * * for the business world,' not for the non-commercial aspects of the liberal arts and the learned professions. In these contexts, an incidental restraint of trade, absent an intent or purpose to affect the commercial aspects of the profession, is not sufficient to warrant application of the antitrust laws.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“proscriptions of the Sherman Act were `tailored * * * for the business world,' not for the noncommercial aspects of the ... learned professions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.