Montauk Oil Transportation Corp. v. Tug "El Zorro Grande"’s Empirical Analysis
54 F.3d 111 · 1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2012
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 33 U.S.C. § 1321
Relies on Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Alder v. United States · Unimet Corp. v. United Steelworkers · Gerry 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not predicated upon the cost of removal, but upon the happening of the discharge. The determinative factor ... is the discharge of oil, not its cleanup,”
1 later decision 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.