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Comcast Corp. v. Behrend’s Empirical Analysis

569 U.S. 27 · 2013

Citation profile

168
cited by 168 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
12
states following
December 2025
most recently cited

15 federal appellate · 21 district · 21 state decisions

Appellate journey

reviewedthe decision below (from Third 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 Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor · General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon · United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc

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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “predominate over any questions affecting only individual members,”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[b]efore certifying a class, the trial court must conduct a rigorous analysis to determine whether the party seeking certification has met the prerequisites of Rule 23.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “at the class-certification stage (as at trial), any model supporting a 'plaintiff's damages case must be consistent with its liability case.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.