United States v. United States Gypsum Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1,053 federal appellate · 198 district · 545 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,593 later decisions (90 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Lockett v. Ohio (1978), Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc (1985)
1,053 federal appellate · 198 district · 545 state decisions — followed in 40 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
reviewedUnited States v. United States Gypsum Co. (from Third 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)
Relies on Morissette v. United States · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Allen v. United States · Leary v. United States · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States
Cited together with Morissette v. United States · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Liparota v. United States · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Sandstrom v. Montana
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 2,593 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The contention that an injury can amount to a crime only when inflicted by intention is no provincial or transient notion. It is as universal and persistent in mature systems of law as belief in freedom of the human will and a consequent ability and duty of the normal individual to choose between good and evil.”
139 later decisions quote this exact passage“increase economic efficiency and render markets more, rather than less, competitive.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a]ffirmative acts inconsistent with the object of the conspiracy and communicated in a manner reasonably calculated to reach co-conspirators.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.