Harness v. Eastern Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 1936 · most notably Shell Petroleum Corp. v. Calcasieu Real Estate & Oil Co. (1936), Nabors v. Producers' Oil Co. (1917)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 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 Bettman v. Harness · Steelsmith v. Gartlan · Cream City Glass Co. v. Friedlander · Sanders v. . Cooper · Price v. Cole's Ex'x
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The principles of equity would not permit the lessees, without consideration, to hold the lease indefinitely for speculative purposes, to the prejudices of the interests of the lessor.” (p. 250.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alford v. Dennis
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.