Duvanel v. Sinclair Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Griffith v. Byers Construction Co. of Kansas, Inc. (1973), Williams v. Safeway Stores, Inc. (1967)
6 federal appellate · 6 district · 27 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 Arkansas Fuel Oil Co. v. Connellee · Fox v. Cities Service Oil Co. · Gulf Oil Corp. v. Horton · Farmer v. Golden Rule Oil Co.
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.
“Had the parties desired to contract that upon termination of the lease defendant would be required to remove all of its property and to restore the premises to their former condition, they could have done so, but here the only covenant touching removal of the property is the one giving lessee the right to remove if it so desires. An express agreement or covenant excludes the possibility of an implied one of a different or contradictory nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“By the terms of this lease [Reagan] had the right to erect the improvements in question. It was under no duty to remove them, although it was granted the right and option to do so if it saw fit. [Garco] could not require removal.”
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.