Gulf Refining Co. v. Orr’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 1989 · most notably Long-Bell Petroleum Co. v. Tritico (1949), United States v. Nebo Oil Co. (1951)
6 federal appellate · 18 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 Nabors Oil & Gas Co. v. Louisiana Oil Refining Co. · McDonald v. Richard · Gailey v. McFarlain · Sample v. Louisiana Oil Refining Corporation · United Gas Public Service Co. v. Roy
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question involved in this case cannot be distinguished in principle from the question involved in the case of McDonald v. Richard * * *. In that case, this court held that where the owner sold his land but reserved the mineral rights and the purchaser of the land sold the mineral rights to which he had no title, and later sold the land, when the original vendor of the land lost his mineral servitude by the liberative prescription of ten years for nonuser, the lapsing of the servitude inured to the party owning the land when the obligation lapsed. “If the owner of the land incumbered with a mineral servitude cannot create another servitude thereon by the sale of the same mineral rights, which he does not own, it logically follows that neither can he create another mineral servitude on the land by a reservation in the deed of sale of the same mineral rights which he does not own.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McMurrey v. Gray
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.