Cabot Corp. v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2012
2 federal appellate · 14 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, 13th District)
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 3431 · 15 U.S.C. § 717 · 15 U.S.C. § 717F
Relies on California v. Lo-Vaca Gathering Co. · Firemen's Ins. Co. of Newark, New Jersey v. Burch · Schleich v. Butterfield · Amoco Production Co. v. Alexander · Exxon Corp. v. Middleton
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“obtain the best price reasonably possible,”
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.