Pan American Petroleum Corp. v. Orr’s Empirical Analysis
319 F.2d 612 · 1963
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 1991
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Chase Securities Corp. v. Donaldson · Pendergast v. United States · Kavanagh v. Noble · Ruebeck v. Hunt
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) limitation does not run and the statute is tolled in circumstances where the cause of action * * * has been fraudulently concealed by the defendant and is not discovered by plaintiff two years before filing suit if the plaintiff exercised reasonable diligence in seeking to discover the fraud after being put on inquiry; and (c) even if there is fraudulent concealment by the defendant, the plaintiff is required to act with diligence in seeking to discover fraud after being put on inquiry; * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]ven if there is fraudulent concealment by the defendant, the plaintiff is required to act with diligence in seeking to discover fraud after being put on inquiry; and if it failed to do so under all of the facts and circumstances of the case, the statute will not be tolled.”
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.