Ard Aj III v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
138 F.3d 596 · 1998
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Smith v. Gte Corporation Gte (2001), Cohen v. Office Depot, Inc. (2000)
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Zahn v. International Paper Co. · Snyder v. Harris · Tapscott v. MS Dealer Service Corp. · Allen v. R & H Oil & Gas Co. · Free v. Abbott Laboratories
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Allen panel emphasized, however, that its decision was driven by the peculiar nature of punitive damages under Mississippi state law. In response to a Petition for Rehearing En Banc, the panel stated: the panel is of the unanimous view that the opinion in this case specifically reflects a result under the Mississippi law of punitive damages and is not to be construed as a comment on any similar case that might arise under the law of any other state.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is unclear to us what Mississippi law regarding punitive damages drove the Allen panel to depart from Lindsey's rule, but we find no principle in Louisiana law ... that permits us to depart from Lindsey”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“derives from the district court's certification of its interlocutory order denying the motion to remand as suitable for appeal under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b).”
2 later decisions 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.