Fitzpatrick v. Sooner Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
212 F.2d 548 · 1954
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1993
6 federal appellate · 1 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 Armstrong v. Toler · National Box Co. v. Bradley · Lowry v. Seaboard Airline R. · Houston Coca-Cola Bottling Co. v. Kelley · Schneider v. Berry
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a jury returns to the courtroom with the request for further instruction, the presumption must be that the only uncertainty in the jury’s mind is with respect to the matter about which further instruction is sought and the court is required only to fairly answer the question asked by the jury. It is not required to restate the charge as given by the court (emphasis added).”
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.