California v. American Stores Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
70 federal appellate · 29 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 227 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. v. Empagran S. A. (2004), Concord Boat Corporation v. Brunswick Corporation (2000)
70 federal appellate · 29 district ·
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
reviewedCalifornia v. American Stores Co. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 18 (§ 7 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 18A (Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976) · 15 U.S.C. § 25 (§ 15 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 26 (§ 16 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 4 (§ 4 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Hecht Co. v. Bowles · Weinberger v. Romero-Barcelo
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 227 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“against threatened loss or damage by a violation of the antitrust laws.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“equitable defenses such as laches ... may protect consummated transactions from belated attacks by private parties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mean that such power should be exercised in every situation in which the Government would be entitled to such relief under [Section] 15.”
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.