United States v. Beaver’s Empirical Analysis
515 F.3d 730 · 2008
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2023
6 federal appellate · 1 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) · 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990) · 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (White-Collar Crime Penalty Enhancement Act of 2002)
Relies on United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · United States v. Gaudin · Monsanto Company v. Spray-Rite Service Corporation · American Tobacco Co. v. United States · Brogan 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the existence of ... an agreement is the essence of the government's § 1 conspiracy allegation ... the government was required only to establish that the [defendants] had a tacit understanding based upon a long course of conduct to limit their discounts.”
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.