General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
286 U.S. 49 · 1932
Citation profile
91 federal appellate · 12 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2011 · most notably Calero-Toledo v. Pearson Yacht Leasing Co. (1974), United States v. Borden Co. (1939)
91 federal appellate · 12 district · 14 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. One Ford Coupe Automobile · United States v. Tynen · United States v. Stafoff · Burnet v. Coronado Oil & Gas Co. · Richbourg Motor Co. 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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so great a-breach in historic remedies and sanctions.”
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.