Coleman Motor Co., a Pennsylvania Corporation v. Chrysler Corporation and Chrysler Motors Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
525 F.2d 1338 · 1975
Citation profile
81 federal appellate · 16 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably McI Communications Corporation McI v. American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1983), Edward J. Sweeney & Sons, Inc. v. Texaco, Inc. (1980)
81 federal appellate · 16 district · 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
Relies on Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · United States v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. · Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. · Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper 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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of any guidance in the record, we cannot permit a jury to speculate concerning the amount of losses resulting from unlawful, as opposed to lawful, competition.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the jury could have concluded that Chrysler had accomplished its purposes of increasing Dodge sales and consolidating retail sales in the hands of several strong Chrysler-controlled dealerships.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“intended to achieve a Dodge sales structure composed primarily or entirely of several large Chrysler-owned dealerships.”
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.