Colan v. Mesa Petroleum Co.’s Empirical Analysis
951 F.2d 1512 · 1991
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2022
5 federal appellate ·
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 Patterson v. United States · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · Earley v. DiCenso · Wood v. Strickland · Mabry v. Johnson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“nature of the ... [d]efendants' investment was changed [as] [t]hey exchanged common stock for negotiable debt securities with a higher market value,”
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.