Tarr v. General Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
October 1987
most recently cited
1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 13 (§ 2 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on House of Materials, Inc. v. Simplicity Pattern Co. · Yarnall Estate · Jenkins v. Fowler
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 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Malicious motives make a[n] bad act worse, but they cannot make that wrong which, in its own essence, is lawful.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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