Blair Foods, Inc. v. Ranchers Cotton Oil’s Empirical Analysis
610 F.2d 665 · 1980
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Garside v. Osco Drug, Inc. (1990), William Inglis & Sons Baking Co. v. ITT Continental Baking Co. (1981)
66 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 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 First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · Sartor v. Arkansas Natural Gas Corp. · Houltin v. United States · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, 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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“hearsay evidence is inadmissible and may not be considered by this court on review of a summary judgment”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an entirely plausible and justifiable explanation of [its] conduct”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal.”
3 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.