Cuneo v. Champlin Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Cantley v. Gulf Production Co. (1940), 105 Wash. 2d 567 - Roeder Co. v. Burlington Northern, Inc. (1986)
2 federal appellate · 42 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 Rio Bravo Oil Co. v. Weed · Marks v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Van Winkle v. . Van Winkle · Marland v. Gillespie · Richardson v. Palmer
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The existence of narrow strips of land distinct in ownership from the adjoining territory would create a prolific source of litigation; that the law favors a construction of instruments which avoids such a situation; that the law will presume the grantor had no intent to retain property then burdened with a railway use and therefore having no immediate value to him; and that the presumption should be indulged because the ownership of the fee under the railway carries with it valuable rights appurtenant to the property expressly conveyed.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[tlhe evils resulting from the retention in remote dedicators of the fee in gores and strips,”
2 later decisions 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.