Yellow Pages Cost Consultants, Inc. v. GTE Directories Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
951 F.2d 1158 · 1991
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Amarel, American Ad Management Inc O'Connor Agency v. General Telephone Company of California (1999)
13 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
Relies on Associated General Contractors of California, Inc. v. California State Council of Carpenters · Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. · Reazin v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Kansas, Inc. · Douglas K. Knutson v. The Daily Review, Inc., a Corporation, the Daily Review, Inc., a Corporation v. Douglas K. Knutson · Thurman Industries, Inc. v. Pay 'N Pak 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“identifiable class of persons whose self-interest would normally motivate them to vindicate the public interest in antitrust enforcement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Amarel v. Connell · Amarel“[t]here could hardly be a closer causal link than the one between GTE's refusal to let Consultants place advertisements for their clients and their clients' canceling contracts in letters to Consultants that mention the GTE policy change.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The addition of specific intent to this direct injury also makes antitrust standing appropriate.”). Further, the Ninth Circuit assessed the plaintiff’s standing according to the”
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.