Exxon Corp. v. Quinn’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably El Chico Corp. v. Poole (1987), Clayton W. Williams, Jr., Inc. v. Olivo (1997)
4 federal appellate · 78 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana))
Relationships
Relies on Pool v. Ford Motor Co. · Farley v. MM Cattle Company · Redinger v. Living, Inc. · Abalos v. Oil Development Co. of Texas · Dowling v. NADW Marketing, Inc.
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that Kirby Forest Industries, Inc. had the right to control any part of the work of the woodcutters on the occasion in question? Instruction: The “right to control” must be more than a general right to order the work to start or stop, to inspect progress or to receive reports.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.