Marathon Petroleum Co. v. Pendleton’s Empirical Analysis
889 F.2d 1509 · 1989
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Caldwell v. Moore (1992), Francis George Hinkleman v. Shell Oil Company (1992)
15 federal appellate · 3 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 15 U.S.C. § 2802 · 15 U.S.C. § 2804 (Sherman Antitrust Act)
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · The Wisser Company, Inc. v. Mobil Oil Corporation · Slatky v. Amoco Oil Co. · Byron C. Darling, III v. Mobil Oil Corporation · Desfosses v. Wallace Energy, 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e must scrutinize the reasonableness of terminations even when an event enumerated in § 2802(c) has occurred.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he occurrence of an event which is relevant to the franchise relationship and as a result of which termination of the franchise or nonrenewal of the franchise relationship is reasonable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As used in subsection (b)(2)(C) of this section, the term “an event which is relevant to the franchise relationship and as a result of which termination of the franchise or nonrenewal of the franchise relationship is reasonable” includes such events as ... (11) knowing failure of the franchisee to comply with Federal, State, or local laws or regulations relevant to the operation of the marketing premises....”
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.