Lovett v. General Motors Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
975 F.2d 518 · 1992
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Innovative Home Health Care Inc v. Pt-Ot Associates of the Black Hills (1998), Sanner v. Board of Trade (1995)
19 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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 Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc · Associated General Contractors of California, Inc. v. California State Council of Carpenters · Arizona v. California · Jones v. Howard · Blue Shield of Va. v. McCready
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a district court is convinced that it incorrectly decided a legal question in an interlocutory ruling, the district court may correct the decision to avoid later reversal,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“incidental to the alleged antitrust activity and not the type of loss Congress intended to prevent with the antitrust laws.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the causal connection between the alleged antitrust violation and the harm to the plaintiff; (2) improper motive; (3) whether the injury was of the type that Congress sought to redress with the antitrust laws; (4) the directness between the injury and the market restraint; (5) the ■ speculative nature of the damages; and (6) the risk of duplicate recoveries or complex damage apportionment.”
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.