Oahu Gas Service, Inc. v. Pacific Resources Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
838 F.2d 360 · 1988
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 10 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Rebel Oil Co. v. Atlantic Richfield Co. (1995), Reazin v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Kansas, Inc. (1990)
57 federal appellate · 10 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 United States v. Grinnell Corp. · Brunswick Corporation v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc · United States v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · Coastal Steel Corp. v. Wheelabrator-Frye, Inc.
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Time after time, we have recognized . . . [a] basic fact of economic life: A high market share, though it may ordinarily raise an inference of monopoly power, will not do so in a market with low entry barriers or other evidence of a defendant's inability to control prices or exclude competitors.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]ubstantial market power can persist only if there are significant and continuing barriers to entry.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“safeguard general competitive conditions, rather than to protect specific competitors.”
3 later decisions 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.