G. I. Distributors, Inc. v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
469 F.2d 752 · 1972
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2001
8 federal appellate ·
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 19 U.S.C. § 1305 (Tariff Act of 1930) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Freedman v. Maryland · Marcus v. Search Warrant of Property · United States v. District Court · United States v. Thirty-Seven (37) Photographs
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“limited to preservation of the status quo for the shortest fixed period compatible with sound judicial resolution.”
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.