Texaco, Inc. v. Ponsoldt’s Empirical Analysis
939 F.2d 794 · 1991
Citation profile
101 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Kaplan v. Rose (1994), Core-Vent Corp. v. Nobel Industries AB (1993)
101 federal appellate · 7 district · 7 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 Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Curtiss-Wright Corporation v. General Electric Company · Brendale v. Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation · Bazarian v. United States · Moore v. Kayport Package Express, 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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether leave to amend should be granted is generally determined by considering the following factors: (1) undue delay; (2) bad faith; (3) futility of amendment; and (4) prejudice to the opposing party.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when multiple parties are involved, the court may direct the entry of a final judgment as to one or more but fewer than all of the . . . parties only upon an express determination that there is no just reason for delay and upon an express direction for the entry of judgment.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The present trend is toward greater deference to a district court's decision to certify under Rule 54(b).”
2 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.