State v. Sinclair Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 1980
5 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 Calcasieu Building & Loan Ass'n v. Goudeau · Lanaux v. Recorder of Mortgages · State ex rel. Board of Com'rs of Buras Levee Dist. v. N. A. Baker & Son · State Ex Rel. Bush v. United Gas Public Service Co. · State Ex Rel. Hymel's Heirs v. Johness, Inc.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Some attempt was made to establish relator’s knowledge of the existence of the lease which is sought to be canceled from the record, but, unquestionably, any knowledge of this character was acquired de hors the record, and, consequently, did not affect relator’s status as a third party purchasing on the faith of the public records.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tate v. Fakouri
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.