Alpha Petroleum Co. v. Terrell’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 1982
6 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 Duncan v. Boyd
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are of the opinion that, when the Court of Civil Appeals at Beaumont entered its final order and decree dissolving the temporary injunction granted in this cause by the district court of Montgomery County, Tex., such order and decree of dissolution so entered by the Court of Civil Appeals became effective at once, and therefore no injunction has been in effect protecting the Alpha Petroleum Company from the proration orders of the Commission since the date of the dissolution thereof by the Court of Civil Appeals. Duncan v. Boyd (Tex.Civ.App.) 288 S.W. 281 .” Alpha Petroleum Co. v. Terrell, 59 S.W.2d at 373 .”
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.