Caples v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 1963
19 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 Kirby v. Conn · Kirby v. Conn · Rainer v. Durrill
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The case there was one in which the land admittedly lay within five miles of a producing oil well, and the contention was made that the sale was void under the proviso of Sec. 2 of Art. 5421c, Vernon's Ann.Civ.St., that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bryan“all such land within five miles of a well producing oil or gas in commercial quantities shall be subject to lease only, and the surface rights shall not be sold.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bryan“No sale made without condition of settlement shall be questioned by the State or any person after one year from the date of such sale.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bryan
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.