Havoco of America, Ltd. v. Shell Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
626 F.2d 549 · 1980
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 19 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 161 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Car Carriers, Inc. v. Ford Motor Co. (1984), Sutliff, Inc. v. Donovan Companies, Inc. (1984)
66 federal appellate · 19 district · 6 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 Conley v. Gibson · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat 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 161 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) particular course of conduct will generally be termed a per se violation of the Act only after courts have had considerable experience with the type of conduct challenged and application of the Rule of Reason has inevitably resulted in a finding of anticompetitive effects.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(I)f the allegations of the complaint fail to establish the requisite elements of the cause of action, our requiring costly and time consuming discovery and trial work would represent an abdication of our judicial responsibility.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“hard to ignore the suspicion that the facts have been forced into an antitrust mold to achieve federal jurisdiction.”
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.