First Comics, Inc. v. World Color Press, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
884 F.2d 1033 · 1989
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably L.S. Heath & Son, Inc. v. AT & T Information Systems, Inc. (1993), Hardin, Rodriguez & Boivin Anesthesiologists, Ltd. v. Paradigm Insurance (1992)
14 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 13 (§ 2 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 14 (§ 3 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 45 (§ 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914)
Relies on Sedima Sprl v. Imrex Company Inc · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Estate J Bosch Second National Bank of New Haven · Hicks Ex Rel. Feiock v. Feiock · Thompson v. United States · Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Barbour
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny person who suffers damage as a result of a violation of this Act committed by any other person may bring an action against such person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“supplant many common law breach of contract and fraud cases, something the Illinois legislature surely did not intend.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is for the court to decide if a given transaction is within the meaning of a statutory term”
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.