Volkswagen of America, Inc. v. Robertson’s Empirical Analysis
713 F.2d 1151 · 1983
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Dollis v. Rubin (1995), John v. State of Louisiana (1985)
25 federal appellate · 2 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 United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Calder v. United States · Vannier v. United States · Payne v. McLemore's Wholesale & Retail Stores · Coastal States Marketing, Inc. v. Hunt
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless the issue presents a pure question of law and to ignore it would result in a miscarriage of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consideration of the newly raised issue in the trial court would have resulted in additional facts being developed there, the rationale for the application of the general rule applies, and the issue will not be considered by the appellate court.”
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.