Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. v. PSKS, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
219 federal appellate · 58 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 644 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Arizona v. Gant (2009), McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010)
219 federal appellate · 58 district · 26 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPSKS, Inc. v. Leegin Creative Leather Products, Inc. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
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)
Relies on United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Payne v. Tennessee · Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. P Casey P Casey · Rodriguez De Quijas v. Shearson/American Express, Inc. · Monsanto Company v. Spray-Rite Service Corporation
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 644 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under this rule, the factfinder weighs all of the circumstances of a case in deciding whether a restrictive practice should be prohibited as imposing an unreasonable restraint on competition.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A horizontal cartel among competing manufacturers or competing retailers that decreases output or reduces competition in order to increase price is, and ought to be, per se unlawful.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it cannot be stated with any degree of confidence that [the challenged restraint] 'always or almost always tends to restrict competition and decrease output'”
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.