State v. Sinclair Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 1986 · most notably General Petroleum Corp. of Cal. v. Smith (1945), Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana v. Fontenot (1941)
2 federal appellate · 20 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 State v. Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana · Crowe v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc. · Massachusetts Protective Ass'n v. Ferguson · McHenry v. Alfore · Crossley v. State of California
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... while it is true the payments were not made within the time prescribed by law, yet they were made, and the State received the entire amount due, and, so far as the record discloses, made no complaint and made no demand for the payment of penalties until the filing of this suit. This claim for penalties is stale ... This court has repeatedly held that penalties in civil actions are not favored by the courts."”
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.