Ratliff v. Burney’s Empirical Analysis
657 F.2d 640 · 1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Lipsett Steel Products, Inc. v. Mosley · National Labor Relations Board v. Acme Industrial Co. · South Carolina Council of Milk Producers, Inc. v. Newton · Ash v. International Business Machines, Inc. · Boire v. Pilot Freight Carriers, 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The pivot of decisions presently is whether the defendants’ asserted conduct was the proximate cause of the plaintiffs’ asserted injury. If the damage was merely incidental or consequential, or if the defendants’ antitrust acts are so removed from the injury as to be only remotely causative, the plaintiffs have not been injured “by reason of anything forbidden in the antitrust laws” as contemplated by the Clayton Act.”
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.