Belmar v. Cipolla’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 212 N.J. Super. 83 - Zoneraich v. Overlook Hosp. (1986), Seitzinger v. Community Health Network (2004)
2 district · 29 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on Bullock v. United States · Jefferson Parish Hospital District No. 2 v. Hyde · Radiology Professional Corp. v. Trinidad Area Health Ass'n · 82 Cal. App. 3d 368 - Lewin v. St. Joseph Hospital of Orange · Adler v. Montefiore Hospital Ass'n
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.
“Under the New Jersey Antitrust Act, application of the rule-of-reason requires analysis of the competitive and anti-competitive effect of the challenged practice under all relevant circumstances. Joseph H. Reinfeld, Inc. v. Schieffelin & Co., 94 N.J. 400, 414 [ 466 A.2d 563 ] (1983). Such an analysis requires insight into the economies of the industry to determine whether a given restraint is unreasonable. State v. Lawn King, Inc., 84 N.J. 179, 211 [ 417 A.2d 1025 ] (1980). The record before us, which contains nothing more than a cryptic statement of the market share and some abstract testimony about alternative methods of providing anesthesiology, fails to provide any such insight. [Belmar v. Cipolla, 96 N.J. 199, 218-19 , 475 A.2d 533 (1984).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“courts normally do not interfere with a reasonable management decision concerning staff privileges ... hospitals must adopt rules, regulations, and bylaws concerning procedures for admission to staff membership, and they may not arbitrarily prevent otherwise qualified doctors from exercising staff privileges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the decision to enter an exclusive contract for the provision of anesthesia services was motivated by the ... desire to insure a high standard of medical care.”
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.