Terry v. Midwest Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
64 F.2d 428 · 1933
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1993
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 St.louis Smelting and Refining Company v. Kemp. · Burke v. Southern Pacific Railroad · Frank Waskey v. Joseph Hammer · Fenn v. Holme · Sanford v. Sanford
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The manifest and predominating purpose of Congress was that the lands were to be disposed of in a manner that would bring the greatest returns to the beneficiary of the grant. That, of course, is always the duty of a trustee. The state took the lands in trust to that end. * * * The reservation of the mineral was not prohibited by the Enabling Act, it was a wise, just and lawful act on the part of the trustee’s agent administering the trust, and neither void nor voidable as being in contravention of the terms or purposes of that act.””
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.