Texaco, Inc. v. Addison’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2017
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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. § 1441 · 46 U.S.C. § 30104 (Merchant Marine Act of 1920 (Jones Act))
Relies on Standard Oil Company v. Edward Anderson · McDermott International, Inc. v. Wilander · Cosmopolitan Shipping Co. v. McAllister · Offshore Company and the Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York, Appellants v. Johnie M. Robison, Appellee-Appellant. Robison v. Offshore Company and the Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York · Warner v. Goltra
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Who has control over the employee and the work he is performing, beyond mere suggestion of details or cooperation? (2) Whose work was being performed? (3) Was there an agreement, understanding, or meeting of the minds between the original and the borrowing employer? (4) Did the employee acquiesce in the new work situation? (5) Did the original employer terminate his relationship with the employee? (6) Who furnished tools and place for performance? (7) Was the new employment over a considerable length of time? (8) Who had the right to discharge the employee? (9) Who had the obligation to pay the employee?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[d]amage awards are only overturned when the trial judge has abused his discretion or `in exceptional cases where such awards are so gross as to be contrary to right reason.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“We find here practical authority for the virtual obliteration of the lines of demarcation between courts of law and equity, if the judges and chancellors of the inferior courts choose to disregard, or fail to observe the distinguishing lines.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.