State Supreme Court / Tex.

Brown v. Humble Oil & Refining Co.

Decided June 12, 1935. John H. Sharp wrote the opinion for the court.

83 S.W.2d 935 · Cited 280 times

Official text

We don’t host opinion text or publish a summary of this ruling — read the official public-domain text for the court’s holding and reasoning, and verify against the primary source.

Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

Champlin Rfg. Co. v. Corporation Commission of Oklahoma · 286 U.S. 210
Ohio Oil Company v. Indiana · 177 U.S. 190
Sterling v. Constantin · 287 U.S. 378
Lemar v. Garner · 50 S.W.2d 769
Oxford Oil Co. v. Atlantic Oil & Producing Co. · 16 F.2d 639
Del Monte Mining & Milling Co. v. Last Chance Mining & Milling Co. · 171 U.S. 55
Marrs v. City of Oxford · 24 F.2d 541

Cited by

Later opinions in our collection that cite this decision.

Atlantic Refining Co. v. RAILROAD COM'N OF TEXAS · 346 S.W.2d 801
Halbouty v. Railroad Commission · 357 S.W.2d 364
Corzelius v. Harrell · 186 S.W.2d 961
Marrs v. Railroad Commission · 177 S.W.2d 941
RAILROAD COM'N v. Pend Oreille Oil & Gas Co., Inc. · 817 S.W.2d 36
Railroad Commission of Texas v. Shell Oil Co. · 161 S.W.2d 1022
Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation, Inc. v. Lewellen · 952 S.W.2d 454
Railroad Commission v. Williams · 356 S.W.2d 131
Poole v. Giles · 248 S.W.2d 464
Coloma Oil & Gas Corporation v. Railroad Commission · 358 S.W.2d 566
Lightning Oil Co. v. Anadarko E&P Onshore, LLC · 520 S.W.3d 39
Coastal Oil & Gas Corp. v. Garza Energy Trust · 268 S.W.3d 1
Ex Parte Elliott · 973 S.W.2d 737
Railroad Commission v. Woods Exploration & Producing Co. · 405 S.W.2d 313
Burford v. Sun Oil Co. · 319 U.S. 315
Pan American Petroleum Corp. v. Wyoming Oil & Gas Conservation Commission · 446 P.2d 550
Railroad Commission v. Shell Oil Co. · 146 Tex. 286
The Edwards Aquifer Authority and the State of Texas v. Burrell Day and Joel McDaniel · 369 S.W.3d 814
Railroad Commission v. Metro Bus Lines, Inc. · 191 S.W.2d 10
State v. Rhine · 255 S.W.3d 745
Fire Department v. City of Fort Worth · 147 Tex. 505
State v. Jackson · 376 S.W.2d 341
California Co. v. State Oil & Gas Board · 27 So. 2d 542
Ryan Consolidated Petroleum Corp. v. Pickens · 285 S.W.2d 201
Anderson-Prichard Oil Corp. v. Corporation Commission · 241 P.2d 363

Explore from here

John H. Sharp’s Judicial Record · Tex. · How we source opinions

Source: opinion metadata, authorship, and citation counts from the Free Law Project’s CourtListener bulk data (public domain). Data last verified 2026-07-09. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).