Standard Oil Co of New Jersey v. Southern Pac Co’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 16 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Texas Co. v. R. O'Brien & Co. (1957), Bridges v. Alaska Housing Authority (1962)
9 federal appellate · 16 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Simpson v. Shepard · Bluefield Water Works & Improvement Co. v. Public Service Commission · State of Missouri Southwestern Bell Telephone Co v. Public Service Commission of Missouri · Missouri Pac Co v. Ault · Taubel-Scott-Kitzmiller Co. v. Fox
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is to be borne in mind that value is the thing to be found and that neither cost of reproduction new, nor that less depreciation, is the measure or sole guide. The ascertainment of value is not controlled by artificial rules. It is not a matter of formulas, but there must be a reasonable judgment having its basis in a proper consideration of all relevant facts.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Restitutio in integrum is the leading maxim applied by admiralty courts to ascertain damages resulting from a collision (The Baltimore, supra [ 8 Wall. 377 ], 385 [ 19 L.Ed. 463 ]), and, on the same principle, value is the measure of compensation in case of total loss.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“sum which, considering all the circumstances, probably could have been obtained for her on the date of the collision; that is, the sum that in all probability would result from fair negotiations between an owner willing to sell and a purchaser desiring to buy.”
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.