Christianson v. Champlin Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
169 F.2d 207 · 1948
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1983
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Wilson v. Holm · Strange v. Hicks · Berthelote v. Loy Oil Co. · Severson v. Barstow · Pennagrade Oil & Gas Co. v. Martin
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is implied in the very nature of the oil business that a reasonable time must intervene between the completion of the drilling operations resulting in production and the ability to market and sell the product of a well. What constitutes a reasonable time, of necessity, depends upon the circumstances surrounding the drilling of each well. Thus, a wildcat well, a considerable distance from pipeline connections and markets, cannot be actually produced in the sense that the product is marketed within the same length of time as a well that is close to such facilities." (Emphasis supplied.)”
4 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.