Buggs v. Ford Motor Co.’s Empirical Analysis
113 F.2d 618 · 1940
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 1978 · most notably Bethlehem Steel Co. v. Turner Construction Co. (1957), Overseas Motors, Inc., a Michigan Corporation v. Import Motors Limited, Inc., a Michigan Corporation, Overseas Motors, Inc., a Michigan Corporation v. Import Motors Limited, Inc., a Michigan Corporation (1975)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Claiborne-Reno Co. · Ford Motor Co. v. Kirkmyer Motor Co. · Motor Car Supply Co. v. General Household Utilities Co. · Velie Motor Car Co. v. Kopmeier Motor Car Co. · Oakland Motor Car Co. v. Indiana Automobile Co.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is one (the contract) which affords some support for the wisdom and necessity of legislation which protects the weak against a strong party in situations like the instant one. The terms of this and other similar agreements had, no doubt, a casual bearing upon the passage of the legislation which the State of Wisconsin enacted in 1937. It cannot be ignored in considering the validity of such legislation.””
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.