Kugel v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Union Rural Electric Ass'n v. Public Utilities Commission (1983), Long v. Magnolia Petroleum Company (1958)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 26 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 Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Harrison · Valentine Oil Co. v. Powers · Hill v. Stanolind Oil & Gas Co. · Jones v. Southern Natural Gas Co. · Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Curtis
Most-quoted passages
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““Here we are confronted with the effect of a definite offer to pay the rentals within time on a certain acreage specifically described and a tender of the correct amount to cover that acreage. This offer plaintiffs [lessors] need not have accepted; but by taking the money, distributing it among themselves, and applying it to their respective individual accounts they did accept. It, as we have shown, is clear that under the unless type of lease the burden of preventing its termination lies wholly upon the lessee; the lessor is not required to do anything and had the lessors in this instance done nothing, the lease would have terminated in toto. Not content to remain inactive, they intervened; they did something; they took the $2,200 from the bank and applied it to their separate accounts. We believe there can be no question but that the voluntary acceptance of the stipulated per acre rental on a described area less than the whole covered by the lease works to continue the lease on the lands described and a surrender of that portion omitted. It is not a revivification of a dead contract because as to the land described the lease did not expire. Nor can it be said that this is a judicial modification of a contract between the parties, because any modification actually made in the terms of the lease was made by the acts of the parties themselves in the offer and acceptance of the rentals. “Should it be contended on behalf of plaintiff that the rule herein announced would not appl”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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