Piper v. Supreme Court of New Hampshire’s Empirical Analysis
723 F.2d 110 · 1983
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2023
5 federal appellate · 4 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)
Relies on District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul · Dunn v. Blumstein · Middlesex County Ethics Committee v. Garden State Bar Ass'n
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Supreme Court of New Hampshire might have concluded that not many New Hampshire lawyers will both pull up stakes and continue to practice in the state. And it might further believe that the bureaucracy required to keep track of such comings and goings would not be worth the trouble . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“serve the less than commendable purpose of insulating New Hampshire practitioners from out-of-state competition,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“prevents a State from discriminating against citizens of other States in favor of its own.”
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.