Roach v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
November 2023
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Waggoner Estate v. Sigler Oil Co. · Sheffield v. Hogg · Southwest Weather Research, Inc. v. Jones · Renwar Oil Corporation v. Lancaster · Thomson v. Locke
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rights to the surface are incident to the ownership of ... interests in land”
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.