Weber v. Consumers Digest, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
440 F.2d 729 · 1971
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 1999 · most notably Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Sales, Inc. v. Avondale Shipyards, Inc. (1982), Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. (1985)
17 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 15B (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Shelley v. Kraemer · American Well Works Company v. Layne & Bowler Company E · Universal Builders, Inc. v. Clark · Baker v. F & F Investment
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a stay of the federal proceedings is the appropriate response rather than a dismissal of the complaint.”
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.