Marken v. Goodall’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on 225 F. Supp. 907 - Amerada Petroleum Corporation v. Rio Oil Co. · Merrill v. Rocky Mountain Cattle Co. · Pfister v. Cow Gulch Oil Co. · Socony Mobil Oil Co. v. Continental Oil Co.
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] person may not withhold his claim awaiting the outcome of a doubtful enterprise and, after the enterprise has resulted in financial success favorable to the claimant, assert his interest, especially where he has thus avoided the risks of the enterprise”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Marken v. Goodall
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.