General Motors Corporation Engine Interchange Litigation Oswald v. General Motors Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
594 F.2d 1106 · 1979
Citation profile
90 federal appellate · 23 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 278 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably General Motors Corporation Pick-Up Truck Fuel Tank Products Liability Litigation 94-1064 94-1194 94-1195 94-1198 94-1202 94-1203 94-1207 94-1208 94-1219 (1995), Weinberger v. Kendrick (1982)
90 federal appellate · 23 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp. · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Coopers & Lybrand v. Livesay · St Paul Mercury Indemnity Co v. Red Cab 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 278 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“possible misleading of class members about the strength and extent of their claims and the alternatives for obtaining satisfaction of those claims.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he prestige attendant upon negotiating a large settlement against a corporate defendant and thereby acquiring reputations as consumer advocates may place public attorneys in a situation analogous to private counsel who hope to win large fee awards.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficient information to enable a class member to determine (1) whether to accept the offer to settle, (2) the effects of settling, and (3) the available avenues for pursuing his claim if he does not settle.”
2 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.