Sunflower Oil Co. v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
142 U.S. 313 · 1892
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 19 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1995 · most notably Group of Institutional Investors v. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (1943), Central Trust Co. v. Chicago Auditorium Ass'n (1916)
53 federal appellate · 19 district · 24 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Dows v. City of Chicago · Freedman's Saving & Trust Co. v. Shepherd · Hervey v. Rhode Island Locomotive Works · Harkness v. Russell · Teal v. Walker
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon taking possession of the property, he was entitled to a reasonable time to elect whether he would adopt this Contract and make it his own, or whether he would insist upon the inability of the company to pay, and return the property in good order and condition; paying, of course, the stipulated rental for it so long as he need it." (Italics supplied.) Citing authorities.”
5 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.