American Motors Sales Corporation Amc v. Division of Motor Vehicles of Commonwealth of Virginia American Motors Sales Corporation Amc’s Empirical Analysis
592 F.2d 219 · 1979
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2016
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · Parker v. Brown · Exxon Corporation v. Governor of Maryland Shell Oil Company · Breard v. City of Alexandria La · H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc. v. Du Mond
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It shall be unlawful for any manufacturer, factory branch, distributor, or distributor branch, or any field representative, officer, agent, or their representatives: 5. To grant an additional franchise for a particular line-make of motorcycle in a relevant market area in which a dealer or dealers in that line-make are already located unless the franchisor has first advised in writing all other dealers in the line-make in the relevant market area. No such additional franchise may be established at the proposed site unless the Commissioner has determined, if requested by a dealer of the same line-make in the relevant market area within thirty days after receipt of the franchisor’s notice of intention to establish the additional franchise, and after a hearing on the matter, that there is reasonable evidence that after the grant of the new franchise, the market will support all of the dealers in that line-make in the relevant market area.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the statute regulates evenhandedly to effectuate a legitimate local public interest, and its effects on interstate commerce are only incidental, it will be upheld unless the burden imposed on such commerce is clearly excessive in relation to the putative local benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`empowered to subordinate the franchise rights of ... manufacturers to the conflicting rights of their franchisees where necessary to prevent unfair or oppressive trade practices.'”
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.