Parts & Electric Motors, Inc. v. Sterling Electric, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
826 F.2d 712 · 1987
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Rakovich v. Wade (1988), Parts & Electric Motors, Inc. v. Sterling Electric, Inc. (1988)
20 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) · 15 U.S.C. § 14 (§ 3 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914)
Relies on Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Allied Chemical Corporation v. Daiflon Inc · Copperweld Corporation v. Independence Tube Corporation · Palmer v. Hoffman · Times-Picayune Pub Co v. United States
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there must be such a failure of evidence that 'reasonable men in a fair and impartial exercise of their judgment' could not have reached the same conclusion as the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“live with the theory it presented at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the record, viewed from our comparatively remote vantage point, reveals no such imbalance. Nevertheless, we are reluctant to ignore the possibility that the district court perceived such an imbalance but declined to discuss it in the belief that Sterling's tied market power argument obviated the need to elaborate on these 'other things.' We will therefore remand the retrial order for clarification on this point.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.