Morley-Murphy Co. v. Zenith Electronics Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
142 F.3d 373 · 1998
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Dean Foods Company v. Ben Brancel, Secretary of the Wisconsin Dept. Of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (1999), Girl Scouts of Manitou Council, Inc. v. Girl Scouts of United States of America, Inc. (2008)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation · Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Arabian American Oil Co. · Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. · Oregon Waste Systems, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Quality of Ore.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Failure by a dealer to comply substantially with essential and reasonable requirements imposed upon the dealer by the grantor, or sought to be imposed by the grantor, which requirements are not discriminatory as compared with requirements imposed on other similarly situated dealers either by their terms or in the manner of their enforcement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“extraterritorial application of the WFDL would, at the very least, raise significant questions under the Commerce Clause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“adversely affect interstate commerce by subjecting activities to inconsistent regulations.”
2 later decisions 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.