Sanders v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
504 F.3d 903 · 2007
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Johnson v. Riverside Healthcare System, LP (2008), Nelson v. City of Davis (2009)
15 federal appellate · 3 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.
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc. · Parker v. Brown · California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited · United Mine Workers v. Pennington · 39 Cal. 3d 311 - Blank v. Kirwan
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a court can consider a document on which the complaint relies if the document is central to the plaintiff's claim, and no party questions the authenticity of the document”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Conclusory allegations and unreasonable inferences, however, are insufficient to defeat a motion to dismiss”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a delegation of market power to private parties that is per se illegal” because”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.