Gotcher v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 1983
2 federal appellate ·
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 Commissioner v. Smith · Rudolph v. United States · Patterson v. Thomas · Rudolph v. United States · Rudolph v. United States
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“From the standpoint of VW, VWOA and Inter-Continental, the purpose of such dealer tours to Germany was to strengthen the Volkswagen family business ties, to supply first-hand information about Volkswagen and the organization behind it, to educate the dealers as to the merits of the product they sell, to acquaint the dealers with the manufacturing processes responsible for Volkswagen’s excellent performance reputation, and to acquaint the dealers with the conditions existing in West Germany in order that the dealers would themselves become convinced of the stability of the Volkswagen organization and the stability of the economy of West Germany to the end that the dealers could go back to their respective * * * buyers of Volkswagen vehicles that the organization behind the Volkswagen was a substantial one and that the Volkswagen was here to stay.”
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.