Texaco, Inc. v. Sanderson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably In Re CSX Corp. (2003), In Re American Optical Corp. (1998)
72 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 60th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Walker v. Packer · Loftin v. Martin · General Motors Corp. v. Lawrence
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all documents written by [defendant's safety director] that concern[ed] safety, toxicology, and industrial hygiene, epidemiology, fire protection and training”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonably tailored to include only matters relevant to the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While plaintiffs are entitled to discover evidence of defendants' safety policies and practices as they relate to the circumstances involved in their allegations, a request for all documents authored by [a corporate official] on the subject of safety, without limitation as to time, place or subject matter, is overbroad.”
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.