Service Training Incorporated’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 19 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Data General Corporation v. Grumman Systems Support Corporation (1994), United States v. Johnson (1997)
11 federal appellate · 19 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Monsanto Company v. Spray-Rite Service Corporation
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“entirely consistent with a conclusion that Data General lawfully extolled the superiority of its repair service due to its use of [its diagnostic software] and that customers independently concluded that they preferred Data General Services using [the software] over [third-party ISO’s] that do not use [the software].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“MV/ADEX, in contrast to demand for licenses to use MV/ADEX, is indistinguishable from demand for repair services. Appellants have introduced no evidence that there are customers who would purchase MV/ADEX-assisted diagnostic services separately from all other repair services for Data General equipment. STI, 963 F.2d at 685 n. 9. 56 Again, the Fourth Circuit reached a similar conclusion for similar reasons. See STI, 963 F.2d at 684-85 57 Frederick Raley, Jr., a DG official, testified at his deposition that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A tying arrangement is 'an agreement by a party to sell one product but only on the condition that the buyer also purchases a different (or tied) product.' ") (citations omitted, emphasis added). A showing that the buyer of the tied product was coerced by the tying arrangement into making the purchase is sufficient to show that the buyer was not merely "acting independently.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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