Fulton v. Hecht’s Empirical Analysis
580 F.2d 1243 · 1978
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Domed Stadium Hotel, Inc. v. Holiday Inns, Inc. (1984), Aladdin Oil Co. v. Texaco, Inc. (1979)
22 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 2 (§ 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 45 (§ 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Griffin v. Breckenridge · United States v. Grinnell Corp. · United States v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. · United States v. Colgate & Co. · United States v. Parke, Davis & 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.
“Although each track may have only 25 percent of the market, the fact that only one track is operating at any given time makes each track’s power significantly greater than that of a firm whose sales represent 25 percent of the normal market. According to plaintiff, the economies of this industry are such that a dog owner must be able to race year round in order to be competitive. Ignoring the Broward County track for the moment, plaintiff contends that each track has absolute monopoly power during the three months of the year when it is the only track in operation. Thus, each track can dictate the terms of booking contracts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The law of tort is well established that an individual can refuse to enter into a contract or to maintain a business relationship terminable at will for any reason sufficient to himself.”
1 later decision 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.