Gulf Refining Co. v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1979
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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.
Relationships
Relies on Gould v. Gould · State Board of Tax Com'rs of Indiana v. Jackson · Fox v. Standard Oil Co. · Handy & Harman v. Burnet · Coal & Coke Ry. Co. v. Conley
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Word ‘control’ has no legal or technical meaning, and [where used in statute] must be given such an interpretation as the Legislature intended it to have, to be ascertained from the connection in which it is used, the act in which it is found, and the legislation of which it forms a part.””
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.