Gulf Refining Co. v. Fetschan’s Empirical Analysis
130 F.2d 129 · 1942
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably Traylor v. Black, Sivalls & Bryson, Inc. (1951), Thedorf v. Lipsey (1956)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 Dallas Ry. & Terminal Co. v. Sullivan · Moyer v. Ætna Life Ins. · Biwer v. Martin · Russell v. Oregon R. & N. Co. · Weck v. Reno Traction Co.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The failure to answer interrogatories is not fatal . . . where answers to such questions, favorable to the party against whom judgment is rendered, would not necessarily render the judgment erroneous.”
2 later decisions 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.