Hefner v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
779 F.2d 277 · 1985
Citation profile
18 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Baker v. Farmers Electric Cooperative, Inc. (1994), Berger v. Cuyahoga County Bar Ass'n (1993)
18 federal appellate ·
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 United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Younger v. Harris · District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman · Parker v. Brown · 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'bad faith' exception is narrow and should be granted parsimoniously”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gates v. Strain · Thomas v. State
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.