Key v. Chrysler Motors Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2011
13 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 Ames v. Sundance State Bank · Big Apple BMW, Inc. v. BMW of North America, Inc. · State Ex Rel. Helman v. Gallegos · State Ex Rel. Klineline v. Blackhurst · Hale v. Basin Motor 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When Section 57-16-5(L) states that a manufacturer’s consent to transfer of a franchise “shall not be unreasonably withheld,” it is not imposing a tort standard of “reasonableness.” It is saying that the manufacturer’s reasons for denial must be sound reasons. It is requiring the manufacturer to make an objectively reasonable business decision. Rather than saying that the manufacturer must act with “due care,” it is saying that the manufacturer must act with “due cause.” See § 57-16-9 (manufacturer cannot restrict the transfer of a franchise “without due cause”). The requirements of “due care” and “due cause” will overlap substantially, but they are not congruent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The distribution and sale of motor vehicles in this state vitally affects the general economy of the state and the public interest and welfare of its citizens. It is the policy of this state and the purpose of this act to exercise the state’s police power to ensure a sound system of distributing and selling motor vehicles and regulating the manufacturers, distributors, representatives and dealers of those vehicles to provide for compliance with manufacturer’s warranties, and to prevent frauds, unfair practices, discriminations, impositions and other abuses of our citizens.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Anything to the contrary notwithstanding, it shall be unlawful for the manufacturer, distributor or representative without due cause to fail to renew on terms then equally available to all its motor vehicle dealers, [or even with due cause] to terminate a franchise or to restrict the transfer of a franchise unless the dealer shall receive fair and reasonable compensation for the value of the business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.