Nbo Industries Treadway Companies, Inc. v. Brunswick Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
523 F.2d 262 · 1975
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2010 · most notably Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc (1977), Ursic v. Bethlehem Mines (1983)
29 federal appellate · 5 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · United States v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. · Lindy Bros. Builders, Inc. of Phila. v. American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Copp Paving Company Inc · First National Bank in Plant City v. Dickinson
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is quite another question whether legislative history from 1914, strong as it appears, should control the contemporary application of a statute laying down a fundamental national economic policy. This is especially true when the significance of the circumstances to which application is sought were perceived dimly, if at all, at the time of passage. The antitrust laws are of necessity statements of general principle. They must be given meaning in specific applications on a case-by-case basis. It is impossible for a legislature to devise codes so all-encompassing as to predict every case to which the general principle should apply. So, too, with antitrust remedies. There is a danger in permitting the pronouncements of statesmen long deceased to control the contemporary meaning of statutes which are almost an economic constitution for our complex national economy.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the mere presence of the violator in the market”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is clear that a trier of fact is at liberty within the bounds of reason to reject in whole or in part the uncontradicted testimony of a witness which does not convince the trier of its merit. This rule applies on the issue of damages as on any factual issue.”
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.