Standard Oil Co. v. New Jersey’s Empirical Analysis
341 U.S. 428 · 1951
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 30 district · 246 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 368 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably City of New York v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (1953), State of Texas v. State of New Jersey (1965)
36 federal appellate · 30 district · 246 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Pennoyer v. Neff · Chase Securities Corp. v. Donaldson · Estin v. Estin · Wuchter v. Pizzutti
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 368 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s a broad principle of jurisprudence rather than as a result of the evolution of legal rules, it is clear that a state, subject to constitutional limitations, may use its legislative power to dispose of property within its reach, belonging to unknown persons.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Appellant is a corporation of New Jersey, amenable to process through its designated agent at its registered office . . . This gave New Jersey power to seize the res here involved, to wit, the ‘debts or demands due to the escheated estate ...’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“disposition of abandoned property is a function of the state,”
2 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.