Lindlay v. Raydure’s Empirical Analysis
239 F. 928 · 1917
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 1977
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 Ohio Oil Company v. State of Indiana · Marble Company v. Ripley · Joseph Guffey v. James a Smith · Brewster v. Lanyon Zinc Co. · Murray v. Barnhart
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It followed the Supreme Court of Illinois, which, as we shall see, holds that an oil and gas lease with a surrender clause is valid at law, and not subject to cancellation in equity, but because thereof retases to grant any relief in equity to the lessee against the lessor, which position it has taken on the assumption that such a suit is one for the specific performance of a contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A court of equity will not do a vain and useless thing by rendering a decree settling the rights of parties which one of them may set aside at his will.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.