The Morning Pioneer, Inc. v. The Bismarck Tribune Company, a Corporation, and Cross’s Empirical Analysis
493 F.2d 383 · 1974
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently February 2008 · most notably H.L. Hayden Co. of New York v. Siemens Medical Systems, Inc. (1989), Illinois v. Sangamo Construction Co. (1981)
33 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
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.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co. · Magna Oil Corp. v. Bateson · Federal Trade Commission v. Morton Salt Co. · Bandy v. United States
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[I]t is not enough for recovery of damages to prove that an antitrust law was violated by the defendant. . . . Rather, the rule is that damages may not be awarded to a litigant unless he also proves 'with a fair degree of certainty, the fact of damage and the causal connection between the antitrust violation and the injury.’ ” (Numerous supporting citations follow.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1. whether plaintiff’s counsel had the benefit of a prior judgment or decree in a case brought by the Government, 2. the standing of counsel at the bar— both counsel receiving the award and opposing counsel, 3. time and labor spent, 4. magnitude and complexity of the litigation, 5. responsibility undertaken, 6. the amount recovered, 7. the knowledge the court had of the conferences, the arguments that were presented and of work shown by the record to have been done by attorneys for plaintiff prior to trial, 8. what it would be reasonable for counsel to charge a victorious plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in commerce ... to discriminate in price between different purchasers of commodities of like grade and quality... where the effect of such discrimination may be substantially to lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in any line of commerce, or to injure, destroy, or prevent competition with any person who either grants or knowingly receives the benefit of such discrimination, or with customers of either of them. ...”
1 later decision 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.