Silver Chrysler Plymouth, Inc. v. Chrysler Motors Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
518 F.2d 751 · 1975
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 17 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 219 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Government of India v. Cook Industries, Inc. (1978), Bergeron v. Mackler (1993)
46 federal appellate · 17 district · 57 state decisions — followed in 17 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.
Relationships
Relies on Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · McAllister v. United States · Lavender v. Kurn · In Re Disbarment of Isserman · United States v. Sisson
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 219 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`enforce the lawyer's duty of absolute fidelity and to guard against the danger of inadvertent use of confidential information.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A Lawyer Should Avoid Even the Appearance of Professional Impropriety.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) lawyer should preserve the confidences and secrets of a client.”
5 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.