Champlin Refining Co. v. Corporation Commission’s Empirical Analysis
286 U.S. 210 · 1932
Citation profile
250 federal appellate · 145 district · 254 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,133 later decisions (132 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2021 · most notably United States v. Booker (2004), Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
250 federal appellate · 145 district · 254 state decisions — followed in 29 states
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 Boyd v. United States · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Village of Euclid Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co · Crowell v. Benson · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co.
Cited together with Buckley v. Valeo · United States v. Jackson · Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. Brock
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 1,133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Unless it is evident that the Legislature would not have enacted those provisions which are within its power, independently of that which is not, the invalid part may be dropped if what is left is fully operative as a law.'”
48 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Oil] production is essentially a mining operation, and therefore is not a part of interstate commerce, even though the product obtained is intended to be and in fact is immediately shipped in such commerce.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Landowners do not have absolute title to the gas and oil that may permeate below the surface. . . . Every person has the right to drill wells and take from the pools below all oil and gas that he may be able to reduce to possession, including that coming from land belonging to others, . . . subject to the reasonable exertion of the power of the state to prevent unnecessary loss, destruction, or waste.””
3 later decisions 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.