Nimrod Marketing Ltd v. Texas Energy Investment Corp’s Empirical Analysis
769 F.2d 1076 · 1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2015
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Curtis v. Loether · William Parsons v. Bedford Breedlove · Sun Oil Co. (Delaware) v. Madeley · Wheeler v. White · Richey v. Miller
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.
“Promissory estoppel is an equitable form of action in which equitable rights alone are recognized.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“One recovering under promissory estoppel should not ... experience a windfall.”
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.