Webb v. Rockefeller’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Twin-Lick Oil Company v. Marbury · Watts v. Territory of Washington · Drury v. Cross · Koehler v. The Black River Falls Iron Company · Hoffman Steam Coal Co. v. Cumberland Coal & Iron Co.
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unless otherwise provided the power of disposition or alienation inheres in every grant. To deprive a trustee in a grant of this power of disposition or .alienation the conveyance must contain a clause in restraint of alienation.” (p. 164.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Parmalee
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.