Northwest Wholesale Stationers, Inc. v. Pacific Stationery & Printing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
318 federal appellate · 111 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 959 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Mitsubishi Motors Corporation v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc Soler Chrysler-Plymouth Inc (1985), Aspen Skiing Company v. Aspen Highlands Skiing Corporation (1985)
318 federal appellate · 111 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedPacific Stationery & Printing Co. v. Northwest Wholesale Stationers, Inc. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 13B (Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Klor's, Inc. v. Broadway-Hale Stores, Inc. · Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. United States · Jefferson Parish Hospital District No. 2 v. Hyde
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 959 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“agreements or practices which because of their pernicious effect on competition and lack of any redeeming virtue are conclusively presumed to be unreasonable and therefore illegal without elaborate inquiry as to the precise harm they have caused or the business excuse for their use.”
95 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“every contract, combination . . . or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce . . . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if it placed a competing firm at a severe competitive disadvantage.”
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.