Carpenter v. Texaco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
12 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Taygeta Corp. v. Varian Associates, Inc. (2002), 94 F. Supp. 2d 77 - John Beaudette, Inc. v. Sentry Insurance a Mutual Co. (1999)
12 district · 21 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 24 Mass. App. Ct. 13 - Asiala v. City of Fitchburg · Wells v. New Haven & Northampton Co. · Oliveira v. Pereira · Wishnewsky v. Town of Saugus · Prentiss v. Wood
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] continuing trespass or nuisance must be based on recurring tortious or unlawful conduct and is not established by the continuation of harm caused by previous but terminated tortious or unlawful conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We decline to recognize ... a continuing trespass ... concept ... because, in adopting a three-year statute of limitations ... the Legislature stated a guiding public policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“plaintiffs [are] obliged to protect their own interests by timely action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.