Gulf Oil Corporation v. Copp Paving Company Inc’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
373 federal appellate · 75 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 915 later decisions (55 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Cardoza-Fonseca (1987), Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc (1977)
373 federal appellate · 75 district · 48 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 12 (§ 1 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 13 (§ 2 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 14 (§ 3 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 15 (§ 4 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 17 (§ 6 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 18 (§ 7 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 2 (§ 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on Baker v. Carr · Bell v. Hood · Brown Shoe Co. v. United States · Land US v. Dollar · Romero v. International Terminal Operating 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 915 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'If it is interstate commerce that feels the pinch, it does not matter how local the operation which applies the squeeze.'”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“strongly militates against a judgment that Congress intended a result that it expressly declined to enact”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“. . . either or any of the purchases involved in such discrimination are in commerce.”
6 later decisions 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.