Murphy v. Sun Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
86 F.2d 895 · 1936
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1985
5 federal appellate ·
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 McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · Hooks v. Bridgewater · Sheffield v. Hogg · Sheffield v. Hogg · Taylor v. Higgins Oil & Fuel 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to the first point, the want of necessary parties, it is plain that appellant has overlooked the fact that this action is not in equity to remove cloud, but is at law to try title. In such an action one cotenant can sue for and recover title to the whole tract for the benefit of himself and his contenant, as against one having no title, and it is settled law in Texas that a lessor and lessee in an oil and gas lease are cotenants.”
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.