Molett IV v. Penrod Drilling Co Gearench Inc’s Empirical Analysis
872 F.2d 1221 · 1989
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Sisson v. Ruby (1990), Miles v. Melrose (1989)
14 federal appellate · 4 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. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1333 · 28 U.S.C. § 1653 · 33 U.S.C. § 905
Relies on Owen Equipment & Erection Co. v. Kroger · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Pelaes v. United States · Executive Jet Aviation, Inc. v. City of Cleveland · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) the function and roles of the parties; 2) the types of vehicles and instrumentalities involved; 3) the causation and type of injury; and 4) the traditional concepts of the role of admiralty law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“determined at the commencement of the lawsuit, such that subsequent occurrences will not divest the court of subject-matter jurisdiction”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[d]efective allegations of jurisdiction may be amended, upon terms, in the trial or appellate courts.”
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.