Koch Hydrocarbon Company Division of Koch Industries Inc v. Mdu Resources Group Inc Mdu Koch Hydrocarbon Company a Division of Koch Industries Inc’s Empirical Analysis
988 F.2d 1529 · 1993
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Patel v. Searles (2002), JN Exploration & Production v. Western Gas Resources, Inc. (1998)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Arizona v. Hicks · Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United Distribution Cos. · California Hawaiian Sugar Company v. Kansas City Terminal Warehouse Company Inc · Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the gas was not sold, [the processor] did not owe the producers their cut[.]”
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.