Kaplan v. RCA Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
783 F.2d 463 · 1986
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably Carlson v. General Motors Corp. (1989), Telecom International America, Ltd. v. AT & T Corp. (2001)
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Bernick v. Jurden · Tanglewood Land Co., Inc. v. Byrd · Chatlos Systems, Inc. v. National Cash Register Corp. · United States v. Beechcraft Aircraft Model King Air A90 Cream with Burg & Gold Stripes Sn:lj-129 Faa Reg:-333gg Equipt
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the good faith of the parties, the nature of the injuries suffered by the plaintiff; whether the plaintiff is a substantial business concern; the parties' relative sophistication; whether there is an element of surprise in the inclusion of the challenged clause; and the conspicuousness of the clause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“circumstances cause an exclusive or limited remedy to fail of its essential purpose.”
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.