McKeever v. Fontenot’s Empirical Analysis
104 F.2d 326 · 1939
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 1964
9 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 Brewster v. Gage · Helvering v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. · United States v. Dakota-Montana Oil Co. · Massachusetts Mut Life Ins Co v. United States · McKeever v. Fontenot
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * `all transportation' shall include transportation by private owner whenever the movement is substantially similar to movements which pipe line carriers usually undertake and perform, if the movement is not merely local or incidental to another business or related business engaged in by the person so transporting, such as to the producer or refiner of said oil.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“were not incidental to the refining of oil, but were movements which took place after all refinery processes had been completed and were movements toward market.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“substantially similar to movements which pipe line carriers usually undertake and perform”
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.