Gopher Oil Co. v. Bunker’s Empirical Analysis
84 F.3d 1047 · 1996
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Costner v. URS Consultants, Inc. (1998), Trimble v. Asarco, Inc. (2000)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co. · Shannon v. Ford Motor Co. · Voluntary Purchasing Groups, Inc. v. Reilly · GNB Battery Technologies, Inc. v. Gould, 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere possibility of being named a defendant as responsible party does not constitute the actual controversy which is required. This Court recognizes that the EPA, and the United States on its behalf, for any number of reasons, may well and yet decline to sue Gopher Oil, or they may select yet another among the ten, or others beyond those listed as potential defendants. They may also defer simply on the fact that this ease is too small or any one of a number of reasons.... In the event they are to be sued, those are [sic] another issue, but this Court at this time cannot find the requisite immediacy, and in this Court’s view there is little hardship to the plaintiff in withholding the Court’s consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'A live dispute must exist between the parties at the time of the court’s hearing.’ ” Id. (quoting Caldwell v. Gurley Ref. Co., 755 F.2d 645, 649 (8th Cir. 1985)). However,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“had not itself incurred response costs and the government had not yet brought a cost-recovery action”
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.