St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Barry’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
284 federal appellate · 89 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 835 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Aaron v. Securities & Exchange Commission (1980), Federal Trade Commission v. Indiana Federation of Dentists (1986)
284 federal appellate · 89 district · 87 state decisions — followed in 16 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
reviewedBarry v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1012 (§ 2 of the McCarran-Ferguson Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1013 (§ 3 of the McCarran-Ferguson Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 12 (§ 1 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Blue Chip Stamps v. Manor Drug Stores · Sosna v. Iowa · Parker v. Brown · Continental Inc v. Gte Sylvania Incorporated
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 835 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress was willing to permit the States to substitute regulation for competition”
50 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a method of pressuring a party with whom one has a dispute by withholding, or enlisting others to withhold, patronage or services from the target.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the States enjoyed a virtually exclusive domain over the insurance industry.”
8 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.