Cargill, Inc. v. Monfort of Colorado, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
520 federal appellate · 222 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,630 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2023 · most notably 20 Cal. 4th 163 - Cel-Tech Communications, Inc. v. Los Angeles Cellular Telephone Co. (1999), Atlantic Richfield Company v. Usa Petroleum Company (1990)
520 federal appellate · 222 district · 57 state decisions — followed in 15 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
reviewedMonfort of Colorado, Inc. v. Cargill, Inc. (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) · 15 U.S.C. § 18 (§ 7 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 26 (§ 16 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc · Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Associated General Contractors of California, Inc. v. California State Council of Carpenters
Cited together with Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc · Associated General Contractors of California, Inc. v. California State Council of Carpenters · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · Atlantic Richfield Company v. Usa Petroleum Company
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 1,630 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“threatened loss or damage 'of the type the antitrust laws were designed to prevent and that flows from that which makes defendants' acts unlawful.'”
94 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any person, firm, corporation, or association shall be entitled to sue for and have injunctive relief, in any court of the United States having jurisdiction over the parties, against threatened loss or damage by a violation of the antitrust laws....”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of the type the antitrust laws were designed to prevent and that flows from that which makes defendants' acts unlawful.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.