International Railways of Central America v. United Brands Co.’s Empirical Analysis
532 F.2d 231 · 1976
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably McI Communications Corporation McI v. American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1983), Triebwasser & Katz, a Partnership Consisting of Jonah Triebwasser and William Katz v. American Telephone & Telegraph Company (1976)
27 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had no reasonable business alternative but to abandon an unprofitable and uncomfortable operation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whatever teeth the ‘monopolist’ had were drawn by the 1958 consent decree . . .””
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.