Westmac, Inc. v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
797 F.2d 313 · 1986
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Professional Real Estate Investors, Inc. v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (1993), Potters Medical Center v. City Hospital Ass'n (1986)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc. · California Motor Transport Co. v. Trucking Unlimited · United Mine Workers v. Pennington · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · United Mine Workers of America v. M Pennington Local Union No 189 Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]nsofar as [its] campaign was directed toward obtaining governmental action, its legality was not at all affected by any anticompetitive purpose it may have had.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“genuine attempts to influence passage or enforcement of laws are immune from antitrust scrutiny, regardless of the anticompetitive purpose behind such attempts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the stakes, discounted by the probability of winning, would be too low to repay the investment in litigation.”
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.