Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. American Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
405 F.2d 803 · 1969
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 10 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Squirtco v. Seven-Up Co. (1980), Olle v. Henry & Wright Corp. (1990)
59 federal appellate · 10 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · United States v. Swift & Co. · Kellogg Co. v. National Biscuit Co. · White Motor Company 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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To repeat: caution, substantial change, unforeseenness, oppressive hardship, and a clear showing are the requirements.””
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so important that dangers [which prompted the injunction], once substantial, [had] become attenuated to a shadow.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(n)othing less than a clear showing of grievous wrong evoked by new and unforeseen conditions.”
2 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.