Wallace v. Texaco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
681 F.2d 1088 · 1982
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2014
5 federal appellate ·
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 43 U.S.C. § 1331 (Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006)
Relies on Chevron Oil Co. v. Huson · 375 So. 2d 700 - HMC MANAGEMENT v. New Orleans Basketball Club · Wall v. American Employers Insurance · 175 So. 2d 867 - Gateway Barge Line, Inc. v. RB Tyler Company
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A contract is a stipulation pour autrui [for others] if it clearly reveals that the intent of the contracting parties was to provide a benefit to a third party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The benefit to the third party must be more than merely incidental to the contract; it must be part of the condition or consideration for the contract.”
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.