Pickens v. Kizer’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1974
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jordan v. Jordan · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Hatch · Northcut v. Church · 3 Smith & H. 54 - Morris v. Messer · Bierce v. James
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the failure to explore for oil may result in the loss of the oil by drainage from adjoining lands, while here the marble can never be disturbed.”
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.