Williams Petroleum Company, a Partnership Composed of William H. Clement and H. C. Preston, Jr. v. Midland Cooperatives, Incorporated, a Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 694 · 1976
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 1993
5 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Mustang Fuel Corp. v. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. · Dzenits v. Lynch · Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 94,310 Ferrin C. Harman and Henry Clay v. Diversified Medical Investments Corporation, a Colorado Corporation, Diversified Medical Investments Corporation, a Colorado Corporation, Third Party v. David L. Dooley, Third Party · Cities Service Oil Co. v. Geolograph Co., Inc. · Katherine James, Administratrix of the Estate of Frank James, Deceased v. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts cannot change or alter contract language for the benefit of one party and to the detriment of another party”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Oklahoma law does not permit courts to re-write a contract for the parties,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“or any renewals or extensions or novations thereof.”
1 later decision 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.