Roustabouts, Inc. v. Hamer’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Omnitech International, Inc. v. Clorox Co. (1994), Taquino v. Teledyne Monarch Rubber (1990)
6 federal appellate · 26 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 45 (§ 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914)
Relies on Arceneaux v. Domingue · 381 So. 2d 1269 - NATIONAL OIL SERV., ETC. v. Brown · Coffey v. Peoples Mortg. & Loan of Shreveport · 364 So. 2d 630 - Moore v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. · Morris v. Rental Tools, Inc.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce are hereby declared unlawful.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The Louisiana Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law declares unlawful unfair methods of competition and unfair acts or practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce. LSA-R.S. 51:1405 A. Private actions are permitted by any person who suffers any ascertainable loss as a result of the use by another person of an unfair practice, and if the actions are successful, the trial judge shall award reasonable attorney's fees to the prevailing party. LSA-R.S. 51:1409 A. Of importance is the fact that the term person is defined in LSA-R.S. 51:1402(8) to include corporations as well as natural persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a clear intent to decimate the plaintiff's business for their own gain”
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.