Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
105 federal appellate · 33 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 410 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Franconia Associates v. United States (2002), Landmark Land Company, Inc. v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation v. United States, Defendant-Cross (2001)
105 federal appellate · 33 district · 5 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 Federal Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 1451 (Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program Act) · 16 U.S.C. § 1456 · 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (Alternative Water Sources Act of 2000) · 33 U.S.C. § 1311 · 43 U.S.C. § 1331 (Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006) · 43 U.S.C. § 1334 · 43 U.S.C. § 1340 · 43 U.S.C. § 1351
Relies on United States v. Winstar Corp. · United California Bank v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America · Ankeny v. Clark · Marathon Oil Company v. United States
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 410 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the United States enters into contract relations, its rights and duties therein are governed generally by the law applicable to contracts between private individuals.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so substantially impairs the value of the contract to the injured party at the time of the breach that it is just in the circumstances to allow him to recover damages based on all his remaining rights to performance.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`any benefit that he has conferred on' the repudiating party `by way of part performance or reliance.'”
4 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.