Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Mobil Oil Corp. v. Higginbotham

Mobil Oil Corp. v. Higginbotham, 439 U.S. 884 (1978)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1978-10-02
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • noting that the “Due Process Clause does not empower the judiciary ‘to sit’ as a ‘superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation’ ”
  • where a statute preventing interstate petroleum producers and refiners from participating in local retail markets was deemed not violative
  • because the state’s “entire gasoline supply flows in interstate commerce [as]there are no local producers or refiners, such claims of disparate treatment between interstate and local commerce would be meritless”

Citator

UpLaw has not yet analyzed Mobil Oil Corp. v. Higginbotham. The absence of a flag is not a finding that it is good law.

Cited by
21 opinions

436 U. S. 618. Petition for rehearing denied.

Mr. Justice Brennan took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.