Valley Liquors, Inc. v. Renfield Importers, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
678 F.2d 742 · 1982
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably Roland Machinery Company v. Dresser Industries Inc (1984), Valley Liquors, Inc. v. Renfield Importers, Ltd. (1987)
29 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 26 (§ 16 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Continental Inc v. Gte Sylvania Incorporated · Reiter v. Sonotone Corp. · Edward J. Sweeney & Sons, Inc. v. Texaco, Inc. · Oreck Corp. v. Whirlpool Corp. · Cernuto, Incorporated v. United Cabinet 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] firm that has no market power is unlikely to adopt practices that disserve its consumers; it cannot afford to.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a certain unreality in the careful parsing of motives that Cernuto seems to require”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“too tenuous to require the trier of fact to draw the inference [of a conspiracy] that Valley asked him to draw” and that”
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.