Adm Corp v. Sigma Instruments Inc’s Empirical Analysis
628 F.2d 753 · 1980
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Chrysler Corporation v. Fedders Corporation Sa (1981), Consolidated Gold Fields PLC v. Minorco, S.A. (1989)
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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 Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc · Melvin Friedman v. United States · Ruhm v. Turner · George R. Whitten, Jr., Inc. v. Paddock Pool Builders, Inc. · Gaf Corp. v. Circle Floor 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“essential connection between injury and the aims of the antitrust laws”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hile it is not inconceivable that "mere" unfair business practices, or business torts, could in the proper situation constitute an antitrust violation, [citation] the transmutation of these state law torts into federal antitrust violations would have to be based upon a finding that the injuries for which compensation is sought have an unreasonable effect on competition, as well as on a particular competitor.”
2 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.