Sinclair Refining Co. v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2002 · most notably 45 Cal. App. 2d 141 - Cousins Investment Co. v. Hastings Clothing Co. (1941), Mercury Investment Co. v. F.W. Woolworth Co. (1985)
25 state decisions — followed in 13 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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... it is clearly within the contemplation of the parties to the contract that the lessee shall, during the term of the lease, operate upon the premises a service station for the sale of gasoline...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“so substantial and fundamental as to defeat the object of the lease”
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.