Sinclair Refining Company v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1972
6 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 Catlett v. Railway Co. · Pulaski Gas Light Co. v. McClintock · Nashville Lumber Co. v. Busbee · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Waggoner · Constantin Refining 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The appellant was not an insurer, but it was bound to exercise such care and diligence as to avoid injury to the health and property of others by the escape of gas. The care and diligence should always vary according to the exigencies which require vigilance and attention. A higher degree of care and vigilance is required in dealing with a dangerous agency than in the ordinary affairs of life or business which involves little or no risk.” (Citations omitted.) “In the instant case, if the evidence showed that the appellant had used reasonable care, it would not be liable * * *»”
1 later decision 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.