Duplan Corp. v. Deering Milliken, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
540 F.2d 1215 · 1976
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 20 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably In re Sealed Case (1982), Cox v. Administrator United States Steel & Carnegie (1994)
27 federal appellate · 20 district · 11 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 Hickman v. Taylor · United States v. Nobles · United States v. Singer Manufacturing Co. · WRIGHT Et Al. v. ROCKEFELLER, GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, Et Al. · Standard Oil Co. 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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As explained by the Fourth Circuit, It is only when settlement agreements are entered into in bad faith and are utilized as part of a scheme to restrain or monopolize trade that antitrust violations occur.... Singer makes clear that it is not the mere act of settlement but the intent of the parties in entering into that settlement and their actions pursuant thereto that, in law constitute such a violation [of the Sherman Act].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“CR 26(b)(4) provides, in pertinent part: [A] party may obtain discovery of documents and tangible things otherwise discoverable . .. and prepared in anticipation of litigation . . . only upon a showing that the party seeking discovery has substantial need of the materials in the preparation of his case and that he is unable without undue hardship to obtain the substantial equivalent of the materials by other means.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]eed not be such as to actually prove the disputed fact, [but] it must be such as to subject the opposing party to the risk of non-persuasion if the evidence as to the disputed facts is left unrebutted.”
2 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.