Newberry v. Washington Post Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1999
1 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on United States v. Peltier · Ungar v. Dunkin' Donuts of America, Inc. · Phillips v. Klassen · Albertson's, Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. The Amalgamated Sugar Company, a Utah Corporation, and Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, a Utah Corporation · Al Barnett & Son, Inc. v. Outboard Marine Corp.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * From a class point of view, damages are the preponderant objective of this treble damage jury action. Determination of a violation or violations of the Sherman Act establishes nothing automatically as far as the measure of individual damage claims is involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“undesirable and impractical for a jury to consider the issue of damages in a separate proceeding independent from the proceeding on liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(d) amage proof (in this case) would be unmanageable if the case proceeds as a class action,”
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.