Palmer v. BRG of Georgia, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
90 federal appellate · 13 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 460 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc. (2007), Nynex Corporations v. Discon Incorporated (1998)
90 federal appellate · 13 district · 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 2 (§ 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · National Society of Professional Engineers v. United States · United States v. Topco Associates, Inc. · Arizona v. Maricopa County Medical Society
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 460 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here, HBJ and BRG had previously competed in the Georgia market; under their allocation agreement, BRG received that market, while HBJ received the remainder of the United States. Each agreed not to compete in the other’s territories. Such agreements are anticompetitive regardless of whether the parties split a market within which both do business or whether they merely reserve one market for one and another for the other. Thus, the 1980 agreement between HBJ and BRG was unlawful on its face”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“were per se violations of the Sherman Act”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`The evidence of the non-movant is to be believed, and all justifiable inferences are to be drawn in his favor.’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.