L. G. Balfour Company, a Corporation, and Burr, Patterson & Auld Company, a Corporation v. Federal Trade Commission’s Empirical Analysis
442 F.2d 1 · 1971
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably National Realty & Construction Co. v. Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission (1973), Photovest Corporation v. Fotomat Corporation (1979)
47 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 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 United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · Consolo v. Federal Maritime Commission · United States v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. · Jencks v. United States
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any test 'which ignores the buyers and focuses on what the sellers do, or theoretically can do, is not meaningful'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“delineate markets which conform to areas of effective competition and to the realities of competitive practice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In an administrative proceeding it is only necessary that the one proceeded against be reasonably apprised of the issues in controversy, and any such notice is adequate in the absence of a showing that a party was misled.””
2 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.