United States v. Western Electric Co.’s Empirical Analysis
969 F.2d 1231 · 1992
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2006
10 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
Relies on Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Warth v. Seldin · Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc · United States v. Swift & Co. · Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is no substantial possibility that [the petitioning BOC] could use its monopoly power to impede competition in the market it seeks to enter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a significant inherent conflict of interest”
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.