Charles O. Finley & Co. v. Kuhn’s Empirical Analysis
569 F.2d 527 · 1978
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably United States v. Giese (1979), Sanjuan v. American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Inc. (1994)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · M/s Bremen v. Zapata off-Shore Company · Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co. · Scherk v. Alberto-Culver Co. · D. H. Overmyer Co., Inc. of Ohio v. Frick Co.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[BJaseball cannot be analogized to any other business or even to any other sport or entertainment. Baseball’s relation to the federal antitrust laws has been characterized by the Supreme Court as an ‘exception,’ an ‘anomaly’ and an ‘aberration.’ Baseball’s management through a commissioner is equally an exception, anomaly and aberration, as outlined in Part II hereof. In no other sport or business is there quite the same system, created for quite the same reasons and with quite the same underlying policies. Standards such as the best interests of baseball, the interests of the morale of the players and the honor of the game, or ‘sportsmanship which accepts the umpire’s decision without complaint,’ are not necessarily familiar to courts and obviously require some expertise in their application. While it is true that professional baseball selected as its first Commissioner a federal judge, it intended only him and not the judiciary as a whole to be its umpire and governor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the law of the place of performance governs the construction and obligations of the contract when the place of making and the place of performance differ, if the agreement is to be wholly performed in one jurisdiction. If more than one place of performance is involved, the place of making of the contract governs its construction and obligations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“With its reserve system enjoying exemption from the federal antitrust laws, baseball is, in a very distinct sense, an exception and an anom-. aly.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.