State v. Ohio Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
4 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently May 2008 · most notably Frost-Johnson Lumber Co. v. Salling's Heirs (1922), People v. Associated Oil Co. (1930)
4 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Joy v. City of St Louis · State of Indiana v. State of Kentucky · Yazoo Co v. Thomas · Ex parte Maier · Stout v. Board of Commissioners
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the right of fishery upon his own land is exclusively in the riparian proprietor, this does not imply or carry the right to destroy what he does not take.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hoose v. Doody““We therefore hold that the title to natural gas does not vest in any private owner until it is reduced to actual possession.””
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.