Jefferson Parish Hospital District No. 2 v. Hyde’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
680 federal appellate · 318 district · 131 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,132 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Services, Inc. (1992), Copperweld Corporation v. Independence Tube Corporation (1984)
680 federal appellate · 318 district · 131 state decisions — followed in 23 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
reviewedHyde v. Jefferson Parish Hospital District No. 2 (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 13 (§ 2 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 14 (§ 3 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 300K
Relies on Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · City of New Orleans v. Dukes · United States v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. · Continental Inc v. Gte Sylvania Incorporated
Cited together with Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Services, Inc. · Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc · Fortner Enterprises, Inc. v. United States Steel Corp.
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 2,132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he essential characteristic of an invalid tying arrangement lies in the seller's exploitation of its control over the tying product to force the buyer into the purchase of a tied product that the buyer either did not want at all, or might have preferred to purchase elsewhere on different terms.”
139 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]ithout a showing of actual adverse effect on competition”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal.”
19 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.