Bathke v. Casey's General Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
64 F.3d 340 · 1995
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 13 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Concord Boat Corporation v. Brunswick Corporation (2000), Levine v. Central Florida Medical Affiliates, Inc. (1996)
36 federal appellate · 13 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 13 (§ 2 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 2 (§ 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Services, Inc. · Cargill, Inc. v. Monfort of Colorado, 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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Antitrust claims often rise or fall on the definition of the relevant market.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The definition of the relevant market has two components--a product market and a geographic market.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“customers will travel in order to avoid doing business at [the entity that has raised prices]”
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.