Mapco Inc. v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
573 F.2d 1268 · 1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2012
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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. § 717 · 15 U.S.C. § 751 · 42 U.S.C. § 6201 (Alternative Motor Fuels Act of 1988) · 42 U.S.C. § 6801 (Energy Conservation and Production Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 7101 (Department of Energy Organization Act)
Relies on Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. · Permian Basin Area Rate Cases · Nebbia v. People of State of New York · United Public Workers of America v. Mitchell
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 was enacted against a background of severe shortage of crude oil and its products. The principal aims of the Act were to meet the nation’s priority petroleum needs, to distribute the remaining available products equitably, and at equitable prices . . .”
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.