Community Communications Company Inc v. City of Boulder Colorado’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
291 federal appellate · 94 district · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 875 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority (1985), National Collegiate Athletic Ass'n v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (1984)
291 federal appellate · 94 district · 87 state decisions — followed in 18 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
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)
Relies on Parker v. Brown · Continental Inc v. Gte Sylvania Incorporated · Bates v. State Bar of Arizona · United States v. Philadelphia National Bank · Goldfarb v. Virginia State Bar
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 875 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the specific anticompetitive actions for which municipal liability is sought. Nor can those actions be truly described as”
49 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly articulated and affirmatively expressed.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage“authorized by the State 'pursuant to state policy to displace competition with regulation or monopoly public service.'”
11 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.