Stinson v. Marston’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably Juneau v. Laborde (1955), Noel v. Jumonville Pipe and MacHinery Company (1963)
2 federal appellate · 32 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 Smith v. Sun Oil Co. · Spence v. Lucas · Gulf Refining Co. v. Carroll · Breaux v. Albert Hanson Lumber Co. · Moreira v. Schwan
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Injunctions have been granted only in cases where the cutting of timber will change the character of the place and would amount to waste; or where the property had been destined for use as a plantation and the drilling of an oil well would have been an innovation and the draining of oil would constitute waste. Cotten v. Christen, 110 La. 444 , 34 So. 597 ; Breaux v. Albert Hanson Lumber Company, 125 La. 421 , 51 So. 444 ; Gulf Refining Company v. Carroll, 145 La. 299 , 82 So. 277 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The United Gas Public Service Company v. Arkansas-Louisiana Pipe Line Company, 176 La. 1024 , 147 So. 66 , was a suit in which one co-owner sought to enjoin a person holding a lease from other co-owners from drilling an oil and gas well on the land. The property had little, if any, value for farming purposes, but it did have great value for mineral purposes and the lands were being drained. This court refused to allow an injunction in that case, * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The defendants in this case cannot deny their lessor’s title and refuse to pay rent under the lease.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lacaze v. Beeman
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.