Whittington v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 1999
1 federal appellate · 2 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 Amazon Petroleum Corporation v. Railroad Commission · Melton v. Railroad Commission of Texas · Hercules Oil Co. v. Thompson · Tysco Oil Co. v. Railroad Commission of Texas
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff is ...asking that the hand of the commission, officers of the state, enforcing the state's conservation laws and its lawful orders thereunder against his unlawfully drilled well, be stayed. This, a court of equity will not do. This is but stating a well-known principle of equity; i.e., that equity will not aid one who comes as a law violator. [28]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“What we determine, and all we determine, is that, under the facts here, plaintiff may not have the aid of a court of equity to restrain interference by the commission with his well drilled in violation of the conservation laws of the state and the rules of the commission * * *.”
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.