Autowest, Inc. v. Peugeot, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
434 F.2d 556 · 1970
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Terrell v. Household Goods Carriers' Bureau (1974), Kmc Co Inc v. Irving Trust Company (1985)
49 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1221 (Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 1222 (Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. · Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. · Eastman Kodak Co of New York v. Southern Photo Materials Co · United States v. Parke, Davis & Co. · United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil 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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) defendant whose wrongful conduct has rendered difficult the ascertainment of the precise damages suffered by the plaintiff, is not entitled to complain that they cannot be measured with the same exactness and precision as would otherwise be possible. * * * The wrongdoer should bear the risk of uncertainty that his own conduct has created.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““the duty of each party to any franchise, and all officers, employees, or agents thereof to act in a fair and equitable manner toward each other so as to guar-' antee the one party freedom from coercion, intimidation, or threats of coercion or intimidation from the other party: Provided, That recommendation, endorsement, exposition, persuasion, urging or argument shall not be deemed to constitute a lack of good faith.” 15 U.S.C. § 1221 (e).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“no mere `interested guess' prepared with an eye on litigation. Instead, they [are] ... the product of deliberation by experienced businessmen charting their future course.”
2 later decisions 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.