Spectrum Sports, Inc. v. McQuillan’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
326 federal appellate · 253 district · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,366 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Professional Real Estate Investors, Inc. v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (1993), Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (1993)
326 federal appellate · 253 district · 68 state decisions — followed in 10 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 14 (§ 3 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 2 (§ 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (§ 901 of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Relies on United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc · Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · Bibby v. United States · United States v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.
Cited together with United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Services, Inc. · United States v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. · Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc
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 1,366 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the defendant has engaged in predatory or anticompetitive conduct with (2) a specific intent to monopolize and (3) a dangerous probability of achieving monopoly power.”
67 later decisions quote this exact passage“a dangerous probability of achieving monopoly power.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“inquiry into the relevant product and geographic market and the defendant's economic power in that market.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.