Stimson v. Tarrant’s Empirical Analysis
132 F.2d 363 · 1942
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2002
5 federal appellate · 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 Watson v. Rochmill · Berthelote v. Loy Oil Co. · Elliott v. Crystal Springs Oil Co. · Severson v. Barstow · Stanolind Oil & Gas Co. v. Barnhill
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a whole, it is to be gathered from the opinion that if the lessee uses reasonable diligence to market the gas and is unable to do so, the lease remains in effect. A difficulty with the opinion as authority here is that the court does not clearly relate its discussion to the ‘thereafter’ clause. Nevertheless it does appear to assimilate that clause with the implied covenant to use reasonable diligence to market.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the situation before us the enforced closing down of the wells involved no loss from drainage. There was no intention to abandon the lease. And the storage of the oil underground was as effective as its storage in surface tanks, and obviously more economical. What the lessee did was in the mutual interest of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The court thought that while the statutory action for cancellation is an action at law, nevertheless the principle of equitable relief governs, ‘and courts should in such a case seek to do equity as between the parties,’ 103 Mont. at page 534 , 63 P.2d at page 1025 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.