Simson v. Langholf’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Radke v. Union Pacific Railroad Company (1959), Wynn v. Sklar & Phillips Oil Company (1973)
42 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 Sheffield v. Hogg · 3 Cal. 2d 110 - Callahan v. Martin · Burns v. Bastien · Palmer v. Crews · McCall v. Nettles
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[A]n interest in royalty is an interest in the proceeds derived from the minerals which a lessee has located, developed and produced, while an interest in minerals is an interest in those natural resources before recovery, necessitating their location, development and production before being reduced to actual possession.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here being no oil or gas lease in existence at the time of the conveyance or reservation, the words of the grant or reservation “assigned and set over” are such as to convey a partial interest in the minerals in perpetuity, and an estate in fee simple is thus created.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barker v. Levy“* * * has hereby assigned and set over to * * * forty nine per cent (49%) of all oil and/or gas that may be produced saved and marketed, from his lands in Jackson County, Colorado, known and described as * * *”
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.