Chicago Professional Sports Limited Partnership Wgn v. National Basketball Association’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Sanjuan v. American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Inc. (1994), United States v. Brown University in Providence in the State of Rhode Island (1993)
12 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc · Monsanto Company v. Spray-Rite Service Corporation · 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts read exceptions to the antitrust laws narrowly, with beady eyes and green eyeshades”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The antitrust laws ... shall not apply to any joint agreement by or among persons engaging in or conducting the organized professional team sport[ ] of ... basketball ..., by which any league of clubs participating in professional ... basketball ... sells or otherwise transfers all or any part of the rights of such league’s member clubs in the sponsored telecasting of the games ... engaged in or conducted by such clubs.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[ujnless there are sound justifications, the court condemns the practice without ado.”); see generally Phillip Areeda, The”
2 later decisions 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.