Frank Coulson, Inc.-Buick v. General Motors Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
488 F.2d 202 · 1974
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Key v. Chrysler Motors Corp. (1996), Valley Liquors, Inc. v. Renfield Importers, Ltd. (1987)
7 federal appellate · 9 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)
Relies on The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Brunswick Corp. v. Vineberg · Dade Enterprises, Inc. v. Wometco Theatres, Inc. · Zoby v. American Fidelity Co. · Pierce Ford Sales, Inc. v. Ford Motor 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.
“Various important factors have been identified, however, which relate to an appraisal of the private interests of the parties involved as well as to a consideration of the social utility of these private interests. The principal issue thus becomes whether the social benefits derived in permitting acts of intervention outweigh the harm to be expected therefrom.”
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.