H & B Equipment Co. v. International Harvester Co.’s Empirical Analysis
577 F.2d 239 · 1978
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 11 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 184 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Copperweld Corporation v. Independence Tube Corporation (1984), Weiss v. York Hospital (1984)
97 federal appellate · 11 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 United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, 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 184 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Conspiracies between a manufacturer and its distributors are only treated as horizontal, however, when the source of the conspiracy is a combination of the distributors.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[t]he first step in establishing an unreasonable restraint of trade is to show anti-competitive effect'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen the fact of injury is in issue, the 'isolated self-serving statements' of a plaintiff's corporate officers may not provide substantial evidence upon which a jury can rely.”
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.