Eshbaugh v. Amoco Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2012
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 Pigott v. Moran · Keller v. Denny · Stone v. Ethan Allen, Inc. · Gilmore v. Basic Industries, Inc. · Gallop v. Sharp
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The gist of the civil action of conspiracy is the damage caused by the acts committed in pursuance of the formed conspiracy and not the mere combination of two or more persons to accomplish an unlawful purpose or use unlaw ful means. In other words, the basis of the action is the wrong which is done under the conspiracy and which results in damage to the plaintiff. No cause of action exists without the resulting injury, and the damage produced must arise as the effective result of the conspiracy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“A right of action accrues when any damage, however slight, is sustained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Deary v. Pethtel
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.