Ascon Properties, Inc. v. Mobil Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
866 F.2d 1149 · 1989
Citation profile
90 federal appellate · 40 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 301 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly (2007), Johnson v. Mammoth Recreations, Inc. (1992)
90 federal appellate · 40 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 33 U.S.C. § 1365 · 42 U.S.C. § 6972 · 42 U.S.C. § 6973 · 42 U.S.C. § 9601 (§ 101 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980) · 42 U.S.C. § 9607 (§ 107 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980)
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Warth v. Seldin · Foman v. Davis · Hishon v. King & Spalding · Hickman v. Taylor
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 301 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consistent with the national contingency plan,”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Leave need not be granted where the amendment of the complaint ... constitutes an exercise in futility ....”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he district court's discretion to deny leave to amend is particularly broad where plaintiff has previously amended the complaint.”
8 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.