Patrick v. Burget’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
261 federal appellate · 27 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 567 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2020 · most notably Smith v. OUR LADY OF LAKE HOSP. (1994), Connick v. Thompson (2011)
261 federal appellate · 27 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 12 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
reviewedPatrick v. Burget (from Ninth 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 11101 (Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986)
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · Parker v. Brown · Bates v. State Bar of Arizona · California Retail Liquor Dealers Assn. v. Midcal Aluminum, Inc. · City of Lafayette Louisiana v. Louisiana Power & Light 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 567 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requires that state officials have and exercise power to review particular anticompetitive acts of private parties and disapprove those that fail to accord with state policy.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ultimate control over the challenged anticompetitive conduct.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly articulated and affirmatively expressed”
12 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.