International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. v. General Telephone & Electronics Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
518 F.2d 913 · 1975
Citation profile
107 federal appellate · 19 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 231 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2020 · most notably McI Communications Corporation McI v. American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1983), Berkey Photo, Inc. v. Eastman Kodak Co. (1979)
107 federal appellate · 19 district · 4 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.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Sorrells v. United States · Parker v. Brown
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 231 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hese indicia were listed with the intention of furnishing practical aids in identifying zones of actual or potential competition rather than with the view that their presence or absence would dispose, in talismanic fashion, of the sub-market issue. Whether or not a court is justified in carving out a submarket depends ultimately on whether the factors which distinguish one purported sub-market from another are “economically significant” in terms of the alleged anti-competitive effect.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““There are .two circumstances in which this Court may look beyond the express language of a statute in order to give force to Congressional intent: where the statutory language is ambiguous; and where a literal interpretation would thwart the purpose of the over-all statutory scheme or lead to an absurd result.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“court must look beyond the express language of a statute where a literal interpretation 'would thwart the purpose of the overall statutory scheme or lead to an absurd or futile result.'”
4 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.