Kotula v. Ford Motor Co.’s Empirical Analysis
338 F.2d 732 · 1964
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably Volkswagen Interamericana, S.A. v. Rohlsen (1966), Autowest, Inc. v. Peugeot, Inc. (1970)
32 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Williams v. Zuckert, Secretary of the Air Force, Et Al. · Hutcheson v. United States · Fair v. Meredith · Woodard v. General Motors Corp. · Milos v. Ford 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“recommendation, endorsement, exposition, persuasion, urging or argument”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We do not think that the good faith requirement, whether viewed in or outside of the context of coercion, prevents a manufacturer from terminating a contract with a dealer where the dealer has, over a long period of time, violated a valid and material clause of the contract and has failed to comply with the continuing insistence of the manufacturer upon performance.”
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.