Mackey v. National Football League’s Empirical Analysis
543 F.2d 606 · 1976
Citation profile
99 federal appellate · 22 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2021 · most notably National Collegiate Athletic Ass'n v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (1984), Carpenters Local Union No of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America v. Pratt-Farnsworth Inc (1982)
99 federal appellate · 22 district · 3 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 17 (§ 6 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 29 U.S.C. § 101 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 104 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 113 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 152 (§ 2 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · American Tobacco Co. v. United States · United Mine Workers v. Pennington
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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“product of bona fide arm's-length bargaining,”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the cases giving rise to the nonstatutory exemption are factually dissimilar from the present case, certain principles can be deduced from those decisions governing the proper accommodation of the competing labor and antitrust interests involved here.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... is in reality a very broad label for divergent types of concerted activity. To outlaw certain types of business conduct merely by attaching the”
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.