Union Oil Co of California v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
249 U.S. 337 · 1919
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 35 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Andrus v. Charlestone Stone Products Co. (1978), Fox Film Corporation v. Doyal (1932)
48 federal appellate · 35 district · 36 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 St.louis Smelting and Refining Company v. Kemp. · Belk v. Meagher · Burke v. Southern Pacific Railroad · Chrisman v. Miller · Forbes v. Gracey
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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] property right in the full sense, unaffected by the fact that paramount title to the land is in the United States [citation omitted] and it is capable of transfer by conveyance, inheritance, or devise.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cole v. Ralph · Lowe v. Dickson
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.