Nafco Oil & Gas, Inc. v. Appleman’s Empirical Analysis
380 F.2d 323 · 1967
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 20 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Mingus Constructors, Inc. v. United States (1987), Renfro v. City of Emporia (1991)
10 federal appellate · 20 district · 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 American Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. London & Edinburgh Insurance · Union Insurance Society v. William Gluckin & Co. · Frey v. Frankel · Jacobson v. Maryland Casualty Co.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[t]he filing of cross-motions for summary judgment does not necessarily concede the absence of a material issue of fact. This must be so because by the filing of a motion a party concedes that no issue of fact exists under the theory he is advancing, but he does not thereby so concede that no issues remain in the event his adversary's theory is adopted.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Perez · Fontenot v. Hunter
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.