The American Oil Company v. John H. Hart’s Empirical Analysis
356 F.2d 657 · 1966
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 1990 · most notably Grigsby v. Coastal Marine Service of Texas, Inc. (1969), Fanny Fern Weymouth and Husband, C. E. Weymouth v. Colorado Interstate Gas Company, Colorado Interstate Gas Company v. Fanny Fern Weymouth and Husband, C. E. Weymouth (1966)
35 federal appellate · 4 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 Linkletter v. Walker · Turner v. Louisiana · Southern Railway Co. v. North Carolina · Beck v. United States · Kahm v. United States
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * were contract construction simply a question of simple words.”
3 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.