Gulf Refining Co. v. Carroll’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 1993 · most notably Amerada Petroleum Corporation v. Reese (1940), Clark v. Tensas Delta Land Co. (1931)
2 federal appellate · 37 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 Spence v. Lucas · Gulf Refining Co. v. Hayne · 39 La. Ann. 259 - Lewis v. Klotz · Becnel v. Becnel · Martel v. Jennings-Heywood Oil Syndicate
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Co-owners are owners par mi et par tout, of part and of the whole. Neither of two co-owners has the exclusive right to any determinate part of the common property. * * *"”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Using the instant case for illustration, if the lessee' of M. J. Carroll, or M. J. Carroll himself, sought to bore a well on any particular part of the estate, S. P. Carroll-would'have the perfect right to oppose it, on the ground that the particular spot where the well is proposed to be bored belongs to him as much as to M. J. Carroll- or his lessee, and that the latter are. not entitled to the exclusive possession of it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Loret v. Fugler“According to Sabinus one of the co-owners of a thing in common can do nothing ( in re ) in or concerning the thing ( invito altero ) against the will of, or in opposition to, the other. Hence, it is manifest that this other has the right to prohibit the doing of anything, for it is certain that the right of that one of the owners who makes opposition is the stronger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.