Theisen v. Robison’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 1998 · most notably Group No Oil Corporation v. Bass (1931), J. M. Huber Corporation v. William Harvey Denman and Jay Pumphrey, Trustees of the Estate of S. B. Burnett, Deceased (1966)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 31 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.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In legal effect, the grants authorized by the acts are not essentially different from the grant in the ordinary oil and gas lease, such as was before the court in the Stephens County Case [ 113 Tex. 160 , 254 S.W. 290 , 29 A.L.R. 566 ]. The ordinary lease confers first an option to explore for oil or gas, but, after discovery of oil or gas in paying quantities, it confers the right to produce and appropriate the oil or gas. It is immaterial that the right to appropriate the oil or gas under the 1917 and 1925 acts follows and does not precede the final lease, because, as already pointed out, the permittee or lessee may compel the execution of the final lease on performing the obligations which the act imposes on him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Alworth v. Ellison
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.