McCracken v. Hummel’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 1967
14 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 103 Cal. App. 473 - Merchants Trust Co. v. Hopkins · Central Manufacturing District, Inc. v. State Board of Equalization · Palomares Land Co. v. County of Los Angeles · 24 Cal. App. 278 - Spring Valley Water Co. v. County of Alameda · Webster v. Somer
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘‘It is now settled that an oil lease for an indefinite period creates in the lessee an estate in real property. Callahan v. Martin, 3 Cal.2d 110 , 43 P.2d, 788 , 101 A.L.R. 871 ; Pimentel v. Hall-Baker Co., 32 Cal.App.2d 697 , 90 P.2d 588 ; Andrews v. W. K. Co., 35 Cal.App.2d 41 , 94 P.2d 605”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.