Planters' Oil Co. v. Gresham’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1968
14 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 Roehm v. Horst · Cumberland Glass Manufacturing Co. v. De Witt & Co. · Central Trust Co. v. Chicago Auditorium Ass'n · Grace v. American Central Insurance · Sessions v. Romadka
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is insisted by appellant that the trustee did not purchase the oil for the reason he was both seller and buyer, and in' this we are inclined to agree with appellant. He hence did not buy from some outside party, and the rule did hot give him the right to buy from himself, •but, as we think, required an actual purchase.””
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.