DeSantis v. Wackenhut Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 1 district · 207 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 361 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably In Re Prudential Insurance Co. of America (2004), Mann Frankfort Stein & Lipp Advisors, Inc. v. Fielding (2009)
42 federal appellate · 1 district · 207 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, 14th District (Houston))
Relationships
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1 (§ 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States · Continental Inc v. Gte Sylvania Incorporated · Board of Trade of City of Chicago v. United States · National Society of Professional Engineers v. United States · United States of America v. American Tobacco Co.
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 361 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one which the parties could have resolved by an explicit provision in their agreement.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) the needs of the interstate and international systems, (b) the relevant policies of the forum, (c) the relevant policies of other interested states and the relative interests of those states in the determination of the particular issue, (d) the protection of justified expectations, (e) the basic policies underlying the particular field of law, (f) certainty, predictability and uniformity of result, and (g) ease in the determination and application of the law to be applied.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(1) the place of contracting, (2) the place of negotiation of the contract, (3) the place of performance, (4) the location of the subject matter of the contract, and (5) the domicile, residence, nationality, place of incorporation and place of business of the parties.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.