LJS CO. v. Marks’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2004
3 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. § 45 (§ 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Guaranty Trust Co. v. York · Lehman Brothers v. Schein
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a sale, lease, assignment, award by chance, or other disposition of an item of goods, a consumer service, or an intangible to an individual for purposes that are primarily personal, family, or household or that relate to a business opportunity that requires both his expenditure of money or property and his personal services on a continuing basis and in which he has not been previously engaged or a solicitation by a supplier with respect to any of these dispositions, (emphasis added) Id. § 501.203(1).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the question of state law is not difficult and can be settled from the language of the statute on its face, it would be an abuse of the court’s discretion to force litigants who have not requested abstention to bear the burden of the additional costs of such a procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]nfair methods of competition, unconscionable acts or practices, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce are hereby declared unlawful.”
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.