Southway Theatres, Inc. v. Georgia Theatre Co.’s Empirical Analysis
672 F.2d 485 · 1982
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably In re Insurance Brokerage Antitrust Litigation (2010), Amey, Inc. v. Gulf Abstract & Title, Inc. (1985)
33 federal appellate · 1 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 First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · United States v. Colgate & Co. · Klor's, Inc. v. Broadway-Hale Stores, Inc. · Continental Ore Company v. Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cull the universe of possible inferences from the facts established by weighing each against the abstract standard of reasonableness, casting aside those which do not meet it and focusing solely on those which do.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has no significant probative force where the defendants can fully explain how independent business judgment would have led to such a refusal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If reasonable inferences drawn from all of the evidence — which must be viewed in the light most favorable to the plaintiff— indicate the existence of a conspiracy, the plaintiff has introduced a sufficient basis for proceeding to trial. See Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., 368 U.S. 464 [ 82 S.Ct. 486 , 7 L.Ed.2d 458 ] (1962). The ultimate inference that a conspiracy existed need not be more, probable than the inference that the refusal to deal resulted from independent business judgment.”
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.