Richards v. Neilsen Freight Lines’s Empirical Analysis
810 F.2d 898 · 1987
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 69 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 316 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Street v. Jc Bradford & Company (1989), Intel Corporation v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company (1991)
52 federal appellate · 69 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 17 (§ 6 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 29 U.S.C. § 104 (Norris-LaGuardia Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 158 (§ 8 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 187 (§ 303 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 52 (§ 20 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Monsanto Company v. Spray-Rite Service Corporation
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 316 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once a defendant has met this initial burden, a plaintiff must provide specific factual support for its allegations of conspiracy tending to show that the defendant was not acting independently.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rebut an allegation of conspiracy by showing a plausible and justifiable reason for its conduct that is consistent with proper business practice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“limited to restraints imposed by collective bargaining agreements”
3 later decisions 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.