United States v. Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Ass'n of the United States, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
643 F.2d 644 · 1981
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2005 · most notably Ford Motor Co. v. Summit Motor Products, Inc. (1991), City of Las Vegas Nevada v. Clark County Nevada (1984)
18 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 United States v. Swift & Co. · United States v. ITT Continental Baking Co. · United States v. Armour & Co. · System Federation No. 91 v. Wright · United States v. United Shoe MacHinery Corp.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile the district court is bound to construe the judgment by the meaning to be found within its 'four corners,' the court may also consider the surrounding circumstances at formation as aids in construing the judgment”
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.