Hill v. Texaco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
825 F.2d 333 · 1987
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Cox v. Administrator United States Steel & Carnegie (1994), Ellis v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. (1998)
18 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 1711 · 15 U.S.C. § 2801 (Petroleum Marketing Pract) · 15 U.S.C. § 2802 · 15 U.S.C. § 2805 (Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · Holmberg v. Armbrecht · Glus v. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal · Russell v. United States · Wood v. Carpenter
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 first is where the defendant has a fiduciary responsibility to make decisions.... The second exception is where the wrong is of such a character as to be self-concealing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot be applied in the face of contrary congressional intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“into every federal statute of limitation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.