Watson v. Rochmill’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Gulf Oil Corporation v. Reid (1960), Wilson v. Holm (1948)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 109 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 The Texas Company v. Davis · Day Land & Cattle Co. v. State · Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Co. v. Bratton · Scarborough v. New Domain Oil & Gas Co. · Live Oak Basin Oil Ass'n v. Reagan
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“due to a sudden stoppage of the well or some mechanical breakdown of the equipment used in connection therewith, or the like,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`It appears to be very well settled that under the terms of the lease, upon cessation of production after termination of the primary term, the lease automatically terminated. W. T. Waggoner Estate v. Sigler Oil Co., 118 Tex. 509, 19 S.W.2d 27.' Watson v. Rochmill, 137 Tex. 565, 155 S.W.2d 783, 784, 137 A.L.R. 1032. 24”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the case at bar, however, the cessation of production was not merely a temporary one. There was no production for a period of two years and seven months. The cessation of production for this long period of time was not brought about or induced by any mechanical breakdown or other condition in connection with the well or the equipment used in connection therewith. The demoralized condition .of the oil market and the low gravity of the oil in no wise prevented the operation of the well by the lessee for whatever oil it would produce. These conditions may have rendered it unprofitable to operate the well, but wei~e not contracted against and consequently they did not prevent a lapsation of the lease when production ceased. Stanolind Oil & Gas Co. v. Barnhill, Tex.Civ.App., 107 S.W.2d 746 ; Duff v. Du Bose, Tex.Com.App., 27 S.W.2d 122 ; Live Oak Basin Oil Ass’n v. Reagan, Tex.Civ.App., 289 S.W. 1052 .” (Italics ours).”
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.