Abrams v. Interco Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
719 F.2d 23 · 1983
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 8 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Robidoux v. Celani (1993), Visa Check/mastermoney Antitrust Litigation v. Usa
47 federal appellate · 8 district · 9 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. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · United States Parole Commission v. Geraghty · Franks v. Bowman Transportation Co. · Reiter v. Sonotone 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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]buse of discretion can be found far more readily on appeals from the denial or grant of class action status than where the issue is, for example, the curtailment of cross-examination or the grant or denial of a continuance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“would be complicated by the scores of different products involved, varying local market conditions, fluctuations over time, and the difficulties of proving consumer purchases after a lapse of five or ten years”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Industrial Gas Antitrust Litigation · In Re Visa Check/mastermoney Antitrust Litigation. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Limited, Inc., Sears Roebuck & Company, Safeway Inc., Circuit City Stores, Inc., National Retail Federation and the Food Marketing Institute, International Mass Retail Association, and All Similarly Situated Persons v. Visa U.S.A. Inc. And Mastercard International Incorporated“`class numbers in the thousands or millions,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Visa Check/Mastermoney Antitrust Litigation · In Re Visa Check/mastermoney Antitrust Litigation. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Limited, Inc., Sears Roebuck & Company, Safeway Inc., Circuit City Stores, Inc., National Retail Federation and the Food Marketing Institute, International Mass Retail Association, and All Similarly Situated Persons v. Visa U.S.A. Inc. And Mastercard International Incorporated
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.