Schlittler v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 80 state decisions

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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Applying those rules of interpretation to the reservation contained in the deed from Bob Slaughter to appellant, F. G. Watkins, we are forced to the conclusion that the Vie interest reserved by Slaughter was royalty and intended by the parties to the deed to be royalty * * * In order to apply to-the reservation the interpretation contended for by appellants, it would be-necessary to disregard completely the-last clause, which designates the reservation as royalty * * * Since-the term ‘royalty’ has a well-defined meaning in the oil and gas industry and has been recognized by the courts to be a share of the product or profit reserved by the owner as a consideration for permitting another to use his property for the purpose of prospecting for,, discovering, and producing oil, gas, and other substances, and the portion reserved by Slaughter was designated' as ‘royalty,’ it necessarily follows that the reservation consisted of ¾6 of all of all of the oil, gas, and other minerals that might thereafter be produced from the land under any lease executed by the grantee, his heirs or assigns.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. U.S. Shale Energy II, LLC, Raymond B. Roush, Ruthie Roush Dodge, and David E. Roush v. Laborde Properties, L.P., and Laborde Management, Llc · Arnold v. Ashbel Smith Land Company

2. ““Grantor H. F. Smith hereby reserves unto himself, his heirs and assigns for a period of ten years and as much longer thereafter as oil and gas or other minerals are being produced an undivided one-half interest in and to the royalty rights on all of oil and gas and other minerals in, on and under or that may be produced from the land herein conveyed and described above.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. U.S. Shale Energy II, LLC, Raymond B. Roush, Ruthie Roush Dodge, and David E. Roush v. Laborde Properties, L.P., and Laborde Management, Llc · Arnold v. Ashbel Smith Land Company

3. “although very likely neither of the parties thought it would be less,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Luckel v. White · U.S. Shale Energy II, LLC, Raymond B. Roush, Ruthie Roush Dodge, and David E. Roush v. Laborde Properties, L.P., and Laborde Management, Llc