Amoco Production Co. v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
410 F.3d 722 · 2005
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023
7 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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. § 45 (§ 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914) · 25 U.S.C. § 2713 (§ 14 of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988) · 28 U.S.C. § 2415 (Indian Claims Limitation Act of 1982) · 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 30 U.S.C. § 1724 · 30 U.S.C. § 181 (Coal Market Competition Act of 2000) · 30 U.S.C. § 226 · 5 U.S.C. § 1215
Relies on Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Connecticut National Bank v. Germain · Lamie v. United States Trustee · Thomas Jefferson University v. Shalala · United States v. Menasche
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As in Babbitt, the Payor Letter here is not an agency statement with future effect because nothing under DOI regulations vests the Letter’s author- — in Babbitt and this case MMS’s Associate Director for Royalty Management— with the authority to announce rules binding on DOI. Id. at 1256 . “The letter is not an agency rule at all, legislative or otherwise, because it does not purport to, nor is it capable of, binding the agency.” Id. at 1257 . The sort of “workaday advice letter[s] that agencies prepare countless times per year in dealing with the regulated community,” Indep. Equip. Dealers Ass’n v. EPA, 372 F.3d 420 , 427 (D.C.Cir.2004) (internal quotation marks omitted), do not retroactively become agency rules whenever they are referenced in an agency decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Devon could not meet the requirements of any of its sales contracts without compressing the gas to the pressure necessary to get it into those [pipelines.... That is the pressure that would enable the gas to be “accepted by a purchaser under a sales contract typical for the field or area,” in the words of the definition [of the marketable condition rule] at 30 C.F.R. § 206.151 . In other words, to meet the requirements of the “sales contracts] typical for the field or area,” Devon had to compress the gas to pipeline pressure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“nonrefundable deposit payments required to reserve pipeline capacity.”
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.