106 W. Va. 37 - Jackson v. Kent’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 2004
3 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 Cadillac Oil & Gas Co. v. Harrison · South Penn Oil Co. v. Snodgrass · Parish Fork Oil Co. v. Bridgewater Gas Co. · Harness v. Eastern Oil Co. · 79 W. Va. 437 - Lynch v. Davis
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While it is true that separate and disconnected tracts of land may be merged, in an instrument of lease for oil and gas development purposes, it does not follow as a matter of course that, because two or more tracts of land are included in a lease, they must necessarily be deemed to be merged. Whether they are merged or remain separate entities depends upon the intention of the parties as disclosed by the terms of the lease itself, and in determining the meaning of the terms employed in the lease the conduct of the parties with relation thereto may be considered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.