Legal Opinion
Terry J. Baker v. Amoco Oil Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 7, 1992No. 91-2033PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
During the early nineteenth century anyone shorter than 1.57 meters was immune from conscription into the French army. Adolphe Quetelet discovered that by the army’s measurements there was a statistical deficit of males just over that height and a corresponding surplus of persons just under it. Quetelet inferred that 2,200 of each 100,000 persons either had shrunk themselves or had bribed the measurer to report their height falsely. Lettres a S.A.R. le Due Regnant de Saxe-Cobourg et Gotha sur la Theorie des Probability, appliquee aux sciences morales et poli-tiques…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. DoyleSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Gerald W. Moody, and Jermoo's Incorporated, Debtors-In-Possession, Plaintiffs v. Amoco Oil CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1984
- William C. Brach, Cross-Appellant v. Amoco Oil Company, a Maryland Corporation, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1982
- Ronald Thompson, Cross-Appellant v. Amoco Oil Company, a Maryland Corporation, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1990
- Gruber v. Mobil Oil Corp.District Court, E.D. Michigan · 1983
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3Cited by4 opinions
- Donald W. Geib, D/B/A Rochester Colonial Amoco v. Amoco Oil Company, a Maryland CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1994
- State Oil Co. v. KhanDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1993
- Doucas Volkswagen, Inc. v. Volkswagen of America, Inc.District Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 1995
- Chevron, U.S.A., Inc. v. MebtahiDistrict Court, C.D. California · 2000