Serena v. Rubin’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 1988 · most notably Shepard v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance (1962), Cosgrove v. Young (1981)
41 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 Burden v. Gypsy Oil Co. · Richards v. Shearer · Bellport v. Harrison · Robinson v. Jones · Schubach v. Hammer
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The ordinary and legal meaning of the word ‘royalty,’ as applied to an existing oil and gas lease, is the compensation provided in the lease for the privilege of drilling and producing oil and gas, and consists of a share in the oil and gas produced. It does not include a perpetual interest in the oil and gas in the ground.” (Syl. HI.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Hurst“in and under and that may be produced from,”
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.