Aymond v. Texaco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
554 F.2d 206 · 1977
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably Gaudet v. Exxon Corp. (1977), Jefferson v. Lead Industries Ass'n (1997)
20 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1961 · 43 U.S.C. § 1331 (Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006) · 43 U.S.C. § 1333
Relies on The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions · Rodrigue v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Muse v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. · Media Production Consultants, Inc. v. Mercedes-Benz of North America, 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this action was in federal court under the Lands Act, not the diversity statute, in a manner indistinguishable from the Berry action, and, as in Berry, there are no gaps in the federal law on computation of interest to be filled by the Louisiana interest statute.”
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.