Incident Aboard D/b Ocean King Cities Service Company v. Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company’s Empirical Analysis
758 F.2d 1063 · 1985
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Transmatic Inc v. Gulton Industries Inc (1995), Luce v. First Equipment Leasing Corp. (1992)
27 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Santoni v. United States · Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman · Whiting v. Jackson State University · Morelock v. NCR Corp. · Gupta v. East Texas State University
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the event a well drilled hereunder shall blow out or crater from any cause it is understood that operator [Cities Service] shall bear the entire cost and full liability of killing the well and bringing it under control.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n all actions tried upon the facts without a jury or with an advisory jury, the court shall find the facts specially and state separately its conclusions of law thereon, ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the instant case, gas intruded into the well bore and the gas pressure eventually overcame the blow out preventer. Such a contingency was certainly foreseeable as a cause of a blow out. Likewise, negligence on the part of both Cities [Service] and ODECO in handling the crisis situation was equally foreseeable by both parties. The phrase 'from any cause' unambiguously includes ODECO's own negligence.”
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.