Key v. Chrysler Motors Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 249 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 256 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Quynh Truong v. Allstate Insurance (2010), Crutchfield v. New Mexico Department of Taxation & Revenue (2004)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 249 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1222 (Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Michel v. United States · Delaware v. New York · Hallstrom v. Tillamook County · Hallstrom v. Tillamook County
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 256 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In interpreting statutes, we seek to give effect to the Legislature's intent, and in determining intent we look to the language used and consider the statute's history and background.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“read[ing] the statute in its entirety and constru[ing] each part in connection with every other part to produce a harmonious whole.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“In ascertaining legislative intent, the provisions of a statute must be read together with other statutes in para materia under the presumption that the legislature acted with full knowledge of relevant statutory and common law____ Thus, two statutes covering the same subject matter should be harmonized and construed together when possible, in a way that facilitates their operation and the achievement of their goals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.