Workers' Compensation Insurance Antitrust Litigation Austin Products Co v. Workers' Compensation Insurers' Rating Association of Minnesota & a’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2018
4 federal appellate · 7 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Continental Inc v. Gte Sylvania Incorporated
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term boycott has a long tradition of usage. As stated in an early case: “Courts differ as to what constitutes a boycott that may be enjoined. All hold that there must be a conspiracy causing irreparable damage to the business or property of the complainant.” Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co., 221 U.S. 418, 437, 31 S.Ct. 492, 496 , 55 L.Ed. 797 (1911). The First Circuit has said: “The classic anticompetitive ‘group boycott’ is a concerted action by competitors at one level to protect themselves from competition by non-group members who seek to compete at that level.” Allied Int'l, Inc. v. International Longshoremen’s Ass’n, 640 F.2d 1368, 1380 (1st Cir.1981), aff'd, 456 U.S. 212 , 102 S.Ct. 1656 , 72 L.Ed.2d 21 (1982) (citation omitted). The Third Circuit has provided another description: “ ‘[C]lassic’ boycotts [include those] in which a group of business competitors seek[s] to benefit economically by excluding other competitors from the market place. ‘The crucial element’ in such boycotts, according to Professor Sullivan, ‘is an effort to exclude or cause disadvantage to one or more competitors by cutting them off from trade relationships which are necessary to any firm trying to compete.’ ” Larry V. Muko, Inc. v. Southwestern Pa. Bldg. & Constr. Trades Council, 670 F.2d 421 , 429-30 (3d Cir.), cert. denied, 459 U.S. 916 , 103 S.Ct. 229 , 74 L.Ed.2d 182 (1982). The Supreme Court has held that the means used to restrain competition were irrelevant. See Gompers, 221 U.S. a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“All employers (excluding defendants and co-conspirators, including any subsidiary or affiliate thereof) with places of business within the State of Minnesota required by Minnesota law to carry workers’ compensation insurance coverage, who between June 8, 1979, and April 25, 1983 purchased policies of workers compensation insurance from one or more of the named defendants, including any subsidiary or affiliate thereof, or from one or more other member insurance companies of the Workers Compensation Insurers’ Rating Association of Minnesota.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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