United States v. Standard Oil Company of California’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2006 · most notably Tracy v. Superior Court (1991), Saipan Stevedore Company Incorporated v. Director Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (1998)
8 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 29 · 15 U.S.C. § 3 (§ 3 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 48 U.S.C. § 1661
Relies on Puerto Rico v. Shell Co. · Reliance Electric Co. v. Emerson Electric Co. · 330 F. Supp. 371 - United States v. Standard Oil 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By Act of Congress, 45 Stat. 1253 , 48 U.S.C. § 1661 , powers to govern the islands are vested in the President, who has delegated the authority to the Secretary of the Interior, Exec. Order No. 10264,16 Fed.Reg. 6417.””
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.