Arnott v. American Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
609 F.2d 873 · 1979
Citation profile
60 federal appellate · 13 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Johnson v. Oroweat Foods Co. (1986), Zapatha v. Dairy Mart, Inc. (1980)
60 federal appellate · 13 district · 10 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
Relies on Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Patterson v. United States · Continental Inc v. Gte Sylvania Incorporated · United States v. Colgate & Co. · Barrett 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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Any plain error exception to Fed.R.Civ.P. 51 is confined to the exceptional case where the error has seriously affected the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“founded on trust or confidence placed by one person in the integrity or fidelity of another person”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(i)nherent in a franchise relationship is a fiduciary duty.”
2 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.