Chevrolet Motor Co. v. Gladding’s Empirical Analysis
42 F.2d 440 · 1930
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably New York Life Ins. v. Doerksen (1935), Ford Motor Co. v. Kirkmyer Motor Co. (1933)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 8 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 Railway Company v. McCarthy · Luckenbach S. S. Co. v. W. R. Grace & Co. · Velie Motor Car Co. v. Kopmeier Motor Car Co. · Oakland Motor Car Co. v. Indiana Automobile Co. · Moon Motor Car Co. of New York v. Moon Motor Car 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a party to a contract elects to cancel it under one or more alternative provisions conferring such a privilege, he should assign his cause and abide by it. He cannot assign one cause and cancel it, then, after being sued for wrongful cancellation, come into court and say he erred in respect of the cause assigned, but another cause does exist, and he is not liable.”
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.