Alphin v. Henson’s Empirical Analysis
552 F.2d 1033 · 1977
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017 · most notably 23 Cal. 3d 917 - Woodland Hills Residents Ass'n v. City Council of Los Angeles (1979), Bell v. Thompson (2005)
32 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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. § 12 (§ 1 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 2 (§ 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 26 (§ 16 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Perkins v. Standard Oil Co. of California · Gradsky v. United States · Meredith v. Fair
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“holding ... on the principle that a court is to apply the law in effect at the time it renders its decision unless doing so would result in manifest injustice or there is statutory direction or legislative history to the contrary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(o)ur control over a judgment of our court continues until our mandate has issued,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in exceptional cases, we may even recall our mandate to avoid injustice”
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.