Southern Natural Gas Company v. Pursue Energy’s Empirical Analysis
781 F.2d 1079 · 1986
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Holt Oil & Gas Corp. v. Harvey (1986), Armijo v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America (1995)
21 federal appellate · 4 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 Orchards v. United States · Freeman v. Continental Gin Co. · Benjamin Story v. Louisa Livingston · Union Planters National Leasing, Inc. v. Woods · Mozingo v. Correct Manufacturing Corp.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the United States] Rule does not permit the debtor unilaterally to allocate payments to principal rather than interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court's determination of non-ambiguity is a conclusion of law that we review de novo.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when a contract is ambiguous and the parties' intent presents a genuine issue of material fact.”
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.