Sheppard v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
929 F.2d 496 · 1991
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2017
6 federal appellate · 1 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. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 2 (§ 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 3 (§ 3 of the Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on Bell v. Hood · Eastern Railroad Presidents Conference v. Noerr Motor Freight, Inc. · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Parker v. Brown · Klor's, Inc. v. Broadway-Hale Stores, Inc.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]very contract, combination . . . or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“in some way involve[s] such competition . . . .”
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.