Gulf Refining Co. v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2010
2 federal appellate · 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 Jacobsen v. Nieboer · Hough v. Auditor General · Miller v. Cornwell · Fox v. Jacobs
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The tax assessment against defendants Perry was a debt dne from them to the city of Lansing. Perry’s personal property was subject to seizure and sale for the amount of the tax. 1 Comp. Laws 1929, § 3438 (Stat. Ann. § 7.91). Under the circumstances of this case, defendants Perry should not be permitted to profit by their own wrong. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ellison v. Hewitt
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.