Grubb v. McAfee’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 154 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably Danciger Oil & Refining Co. v. Powell (1941), Petroleum Producers Co. v. Steffens (1942)
10 federal appellate · 154 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.
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a recognized rule that additions ought not to be made to contracts by implication beyond that which is necessary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“... if the land was found to contain coal which could be profitably worked, the law implied an agreement to that effect.”
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.