American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Inc. v. Hydrolevel Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
336 federal appellate · 124 district · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,016 later decisions (31 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Board of the County Commissioners of Bryan County v. Brown (1997), Central Bank of Denver Na v. First Interstate Bank of Denver Na K (1994)
336 federal appellate · 124 district · 58 state decisions — followed in 14 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
reviewedHydrolevel Corp. v. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Inc. (from Second 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) · 15 U.S.C. § 7 (§ 8 of the Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Pierson v. Ray · Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States
Cited together with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · National Society of Professional Engineers v. United States · Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H
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 1,016 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be rife with opportunities for anticompetitive behavior”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] principal is liable for an agent's fraud though the agent acts solely to benefit himself, if the agent acts with apparent authority.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[l]iability is based upon the fact that the agent's position facilitates the consummation of the fraud, in that from the point of view of the third person the transaction seems regular on its face and the agent appears to be acting in the ordinary course of the business provided to him.”
5 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.