Kizzier Chevrolet Company, Inc., of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and Dwayne Kizzier v. General Motors Corporation, Oldsmobile Division’s Empirical Analysis
705 F.2d 322 · 1983
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2001 · most notably McLinn F/v Fjord Johnson F/v Supersonic Churchill v. F/v Fjord F/v Supersonic F/v Supersonic (1984), Freeman v. Ferguson (1990)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Stoner v. New York Life Insurance · Mississippi River Corp. v. Federal Trade Commission · Ancom, Inc. v. E. R. Squibb & Sons, Inc. · Melia v. Ford Motor 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where state law supplies the rule of decision, it is the duty of federal courts to ascertain and apply that law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Witzman v. Gross
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.