Martin v. Texaco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
726 F.2d 207 · 1984
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2017
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Relies on The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · General Electric Co. v. International Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers · Buckley v. American Federation of Television & Radio Artists · Reyes v. Wyeth Laboratories · Fort Worth Elevators Co. v. Russell
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“instructions are a matter of discretion for the trial court and the decision to give [this] instruction[] was not an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]lthough state law governs the substance of the jury instructions, the manner of giving instructions is controlled by federal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Moreover, the trial court has a duty to give instructions that are meaningful and translated into terms the jury can understand.”
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.