Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company Texas North Western Railway Company v. Diamond Shamrock Refining and Marketing Company’s Empirical Analysis
865 F.2d 807 · 1988
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Graefenhain v. Pabst Brewing Co. (1989), Monarch Life Insurance v. Ropes & Gray (1995)
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Adams v. Texas · Laskey Bros. of West Virginia, Inc. v. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. · Woodward v. Ortiz · American Hospital Supply Corp. v. Hospital Products Ltd. · Schokbeton Industries, Inc. v. Schokbeton Products 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We shall not reverse a district court's interpretation of its own order 'unless the record clearly shows an abuse of discretion.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]ew persons are in a better position to understand the meaning of a [court order] than the district judge who oversaw and approved it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The district court is in the best position to interpret its own orders.”
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.