Hebert v. Kerr-McGee Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2002
4 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. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 43 U.S.C. § 1333
Relies on Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · Richards v. United States · Rodrigue v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · United States v. Seckinger
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To the extent that they are applicable and not inconsistent with this subchapter or with other Federal laws and regulations of the Secretary now in effect or hereafter adopted, the civil and criminal laws of each adjacent state ... are hereby declared to be the law of the United States for the Outer Continental Shelf”
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.