Christopher v. General Computer Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2009
13 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 Bridges v. United States · Nelson Radio & Supply Co. v. Motorola, Inc. · International Bankers Life Insurance Co. v. Holloway · Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp. v. Nortex Oil & Gas Corp. · Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co. v. McCardell
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We agree with the decisions cited by appellant to the effect that a corporation cannot conspire with itself, no matter how many of its agents may participate in the corporate action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“no objection to one part of the charge may be adopted and applied to any other part of the charge by reference only.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ctw v. Bcg
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.