Brown v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Southland Royalty Co. v. Humble Oil & Refining Co. (1952), West v. Commissioner (1945)
15 federal appellate · 81 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 Martel v. A. v. Eder Co. · Lusk v. Green
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * together with a 1¾6 interest in and to all the oil, gas and other minerals in and under and that may be produced from said land and the Grantor retains title to a Vie interest in and to all of the oil, gas and other minerals in and under and that may be produced from said land; but it is distinctly agreed and understood that the grantor, his heirs and assigns, shall not receive any part of the money rental paid on any future lease; and the grantee, his heirs or assigns, shall have authority to lease said land and receive the cash bonus and rental; and the grantor, his heirs or assigns, shall receive the royalty retained herein only from actual production of oil, gas or other minerals on said land.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The language used, by which Mrs. Lee reserved to herself the one-thirty-second royalty interest in all of the 20 acres conveyed, with provision that the royalty be delivered to her as is usual where oil, gas or other minerals are produced and saved, negatives the existence of an intention to confer upon her grantee the power or authority to convey or in any way dispose of any part of the royalty interest which she reserved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘Of the acreage above described, the said Floyd Smith and wife, Bertha Smith, own twenty (20) acres and the said Ector Smith and wife, Ada Smith, own 42.75 acres, and it is understood and agreed as between Lessors, that the rents and royalties hereinafter stipulated to be paid on said 62.75 acre tract are to be pooled and shared by said Lessors in proportion to acreage owned.’ ””
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.