Exxon Corporation v. Governor of Maryland Shell Oil Company’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
385 federal appellate · 185 district · 463 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,665 later decisions (61 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. (1982), Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co. (1981)
385 federal appellate · 185 district · 463 state decisions — followed in 40 states
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. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act) · 15 U.S.C. § 13 (§ 2 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 15 U.S.C. § 751 · 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission · Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. United States · Ferguson v. Skrupa · White Motor Company v. United States
Cited together with Pike v. Bruce Church, Inc. · Minnesota v. Clover Leaf Creamery Co. · Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission · City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey · Hughes v. Oklahoma
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 1,665 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that the burden of a state regulation falls on some interstate companies does not, by itself, establish a claim of discrimination against interstate commerce.”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“protects the interstate market, not particular interstate firms, from prohibitive or burdensome regulations.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage“relates to the wisdom of the statute, not to its burden on commerce.”
18 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.