Collins v. Associated Pathologists, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2019
2 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 14 (§ 3 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 2 (§ 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Marrese v. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons · Monsanto Company v. Spray-Rite Service 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus under the law of this Circuit ... the boycott would be illegal per se only if the agreement the individual members of APL combined to enforce was itself illegal per se. If the individual members of APL did combine to persuade St. John’s not to hire Dr. Collins as an independent pathologist, they did so to enforce their contract with St. John’s under which it was agreed that APL would provide complete and adequate professional pathology screening. This agreement did not violate Section 1 of the Sherman Act ... Because the agreement the alleged boycott was used to enforce was not illegal, much less illegal per se, the district court correctly applied the rule of reason as the applicable standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The definition of a relevant geographic market varies from case to case depending on the type of product and the geographic characteristics of an area, but the relevant geographic market must identify the area of effective competition that the defendant encounters when it offers its product or services for sale.” Collins [v. Associated Pathologists, Ltd. [ 676 F.Supp. 1388 ], 1987-1 Trade Cas. (CCH) ¶ 67,603 ,] 60,620 [C.D.Ill. Feb. 11, 1987), citing Tampa Electric Co. v. Nashville Coal Co., 365 U.S. 320 [ 81 S.Ct. 623 , 5 L.Ed.2d 580 ] (1961).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the record amply supports the conclusion that consumers differentiate between anesthesiological services and other hospital services provided by [the defendant hospital],”
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.