Chrysler Corporation v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1,057 federal appellate · 467 district · 151 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,969 later decisions (78 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Consumer Product Safety Commission v. GTE Sylvania, Inc. (1980), Cannon v. University of Chicago (1979)
1,057 federal appellate · 467 district · 151 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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
reviewedChrysler Corporation v. Schlesinger (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 176A · 18 U.S.C. § 1905 · 18 U.S.C. § 216 · 19 U.S.C. § 1335 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 21 U.S.C. § 601 (Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1978) · 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000D · 42 U.S.C. § 2000D
Relies on Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Califano v. Sanders · Cort v. Ash · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal Communications Commission
Cited together with Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Citizens to Preserve Overton Park, Inc. v. Volpe · Morton v. Ruiz · Abbott Laboratories v. Gardner · Cort v. Ash
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 2,969 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“interpretative rules, general statements of policy, or rules of agency organization, procedure, or practice.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The remarks of a single legislator, even the sponsor, are not controlling in analyzing legislative history.”
25 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.