Phillips v. Crown Central Petroleum Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
602 F.2d 616 · 1979
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably King & King Enterprises v. Champlin Petroleum Co. (1981), Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Milliken & Co. (1982)
28 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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 States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... In cases such as this, plaintiffs should be given full benefit of their proof without tightly compartmentalizing the various factual components and wiping the slate clean after scrutiny of each. ‘The character and effect of a conspiracy are not to be judged by dismembering it and viewing its separate parts, but only by looking at it- as a whole, [citation omitted;] and in a case like the one before us, the duty of the jury [and, therefore, of the trial judge in the case at bar] was to look at the whole picture and not merely at the individual figures in it.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the very essence of a franchise is the purchase of several related products in a single competitively attractive package.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“emerging law of tie ins in franchise settings”
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.