Mathis v. Exxon Corporation

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding state law controls award and reasonableness of fee where, as here, it “supplies the rule of decision”
• discussing Uniform Commercial Code duty to act in good faith when fixing open price terms
• affirming the district court’s finding that the expert testimony of an economist had to be admitted because it made the party’s arguments more plausible
• applying Texas law; holding that there is both a B. Propriety of an Open Price Term under Ohio Law subjective test (“honesty in fact”) and an objective test (“reasonable commercial standards”
• \State law controls both the award of and the reasonableness of fees awarded where state law supplies the rule of decision.\
• a pretrial objection was sufficient to preserve error of proposed expert testimony for appellate review

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

133 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Mississippi Transp. Comm'n v. McLemore
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-10-16· cited 395×
• United States v. Valencia
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-03-10· cited 373×
• United States v. Fields
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-04-02· cited 339×
• Huss v. Gayden
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-06-10· cited 281×
• Micro Chemical, Inc. v. Lextron, Inc. And Turnkey Computer Systems, Inc.
  Federal Circuit· 2003-01-24· cited 268×
• Betty Black v. SettlePou, P.C.
  Fifth Circuit· 2013-10-11· cited 207×
• Perry Hamburger, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-03-02· cited 182×
• Singer v. City of Waco, Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-03-27· cited 177×
• American Rice, Inc. v. Producers Rice Mill, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-02-22· cited 156×
• Reid Road Municipal Utility District No. 2 v. Speedy Stop Food Stores, Ltd.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2011-03-11· cited 150×
• United States v. Avants
  Fifth Circuit· 2004-04-19· cited 149×
• Alexandro Puga v. About Tyme Transport, Inc
  Fifth Circuit· 2019-04-17· cited 145×
• United States v. Yanez Sosa
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-01-04· cited 142×
• Carlson v. Bioremedi Therapeutic Systems, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2016-05-16· cited 98×
• DP Solutions, Inc. v. Rollins, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-12-31· cited 96×
• Wanda Williams v. The Manitowoc Company, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2018-08-03· cited 91×
• Clena Investments, Inc. v. XL Specialty Insurance
  S.D. Florida· 2012-01-30· cited 80×
• Giannaris v. Giannaris
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2007-07-19· cited 69×
• Butler v. Balolia
  First Circuit· 2013-11-22· cited 69×
• Monique Roman v. Western Manufacturing, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2012-08-17· cited 68×

Cites

42 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 21,376×
• Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael
  Supreme Court· 1999-03-23· cited 8,651×
• General Electric Co. v. Joiner
  Supreme Court· 1997-12-15· cited 4,535×
• Bourjaily v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-23· cited 2,639×
• Salve Regina College v. Russell
  Supreme Court· 1991-03-20· cited 2,415×
• Moore v. Ashland Chemical Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-09-16· cited 919×
• Commissioners Court of Titus County v. Agan
  Texas Supreme Court· 1997-02-21· cited 881×
• Green International, Inc. v. Solis
  Texas Supreme Court· 1997-10-02· cited 865×
• Thomas Pipitone, and Bonnie Pipitone v. Biomatrix, Inc., Biomatrix, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-04-18· cited 685×
• La Sara Grain Co. v. First National Bank of Mercedes
  Texas Supreme Court· 1984-05-23· cited 432×
• Willard Rushing and Patricia Rushing v. Kansas City Southern Railway Company
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-08-30· cited 272×
• Green v. Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-03-15· cited 263×
• Lenape Resources Corp. v. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1996-08-16· cited 253×
• Bass v. Parkwood Hospital
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-07-01· cited 239×
• H. E. Collins and Joetta Collins, Surviving Parents and Personal Representatives of Karen Collins, Deceased v. Wayne Corporation
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-07-18· cited 225×
• Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc. v. Glyn-Jones
  Texas Supreme Court· 1994-06-15· cited 209×
• Doddy v. Oxy USA, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-12-17· cited 204×
• First National Bank of Cicero v. Lewco Securities Corp.
  First Circuit· 1989-01-12· cited 152×
• World Help v. Leisure Lifestyles, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1998-09-24· cited 144×
• Gill Savings Ass'n v. Chair King, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1990-10-17· cited 126×