Sinclair Refining Co. v. Burroughs’s Empirical Analysis
133 F.2d 536 · 1943
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1980
5 federal appellate · 3 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 Oklahoma City v. Shields · Oklahoma Ry. Co. v. Severns Paving Co. · Missouri, K. & T. Ry. Co. v. City of Tulsa · Morrow v. Barber Asphalt Paving Co. · American-First National Bank v. Peterson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Having defined the terms ‘land’ and ‘real property’, it. must follow that when the law making body of the state uses one or the other of these terms, it uses them in.the sense in which it had defined them.””
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.