Rives v. Gulf Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently May 1974 · most notably Frost-Johnson Lumber Co. v. Salling's Heirs (1922), Logan v. State Gravel Co. (1925)
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 50 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 Geer v. State of Connecticut · Ohio Oil Company v. State of Indiana · Galveston Ry Co v. Gonzales · Brown v. Spilman · Heller v. Dailey
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In determining the scope and legal effect of an instrument giving rights and privileges to mine or take minerals, oil, or gas, it is immaterial by what name it is called, whether a lease, license, sale, contract, grant, deed of conveyance, a real right, an incorporeal hereditament, a chattel interest, a chattel real, a right in land, or other name; the court will look to the language used in the instrument, aside from these terms so used, and determine its legal effect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Oil and gas, until severed from the realty, are as much a part of it as coal or stone. So long as they remain in the ground outside of an artificial receptacle at least, as the casing of a well or a pipe line, they must be treated as a part of the realty underneath the surface where they lie. The owner of the surface is the owner of the oil and gas beneath it; but, if they escape into the land of another, he ceases to be the owner of them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“most strongly against the lessee and in favor of the lessor.”
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.