Morley-Murphy Co. v. Zenith Electronics Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Porzig v. Nolden · Slowiak v. Land O'Lakes, Inc. · Araneta v. United States · Breuer Electric Manufacturing Co. v. Toronado Systems of America, Inc. · 105 Wis. 2d 17 - Foerster, Inc. v. Atlas Metal Parts 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Accepting defendant’s argument that it had good cause to terminate plaintiff would eviscerate the Wisconsin Fair Dealership Law. It would allow any supplier that alleged economic loss the ability to terminate its Wisconsin dealers unilaterally and take over the market the dealers had developed, provided only that the supplier could show it had “considered” the problem and had come to believe a broad structural change would serve to stem its losses. The law would no longer provide the protection from opportunistic behavior on the part of grantors that is memorialized in the good cause provision’s focus on dealers’ performance deficiencies. This focus on dealer deficiency was intentional: the fair dealership law does not allow grantors to take away dealerships unilaterally absent some dealer-related deficiency unless they can work out a fair termination agreement with their dealers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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