Beltz Travel Service, Inc. v. International Air Transport Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
620 F.2d 1360 · 1980
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Swartz v. KPMG LLP (2007), U.S. Industries, Inc. v. Touche Ross & Co. (1988)
28 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 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 Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · American Tobacco Co. v. United States · Hughes Tool Co. v. Trans World Airlines, 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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If [plaintiff] can establish the existence of a conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws and that [defendants] were a part of such a conspiracy, [defendants] will be liable for the acts of all members of the conspiracy in furtherance of the conspiracy, regardless of the nature of [defendants'] own actions.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... 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“[f]or an agreement to constitute a violation of section 1 of the Sherman Act, a `conscious commitment to a common scheme designed to achieve an unlawful objective' must be established.”
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.