Mitchell v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Knebel v. Capital National Bank in Austin (1975), In Re the Estate of Campbell (1963)
46 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 Stephens County v. Mid-Kansas Oil & Gas Co. · Texas Company v. W.H. Daugherty · Sheffield v. Hogg · Swayne v. Lone Acre Oil Co. · Thompson v. Thompson
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all natural resources from all such lands, including all oil and gas and other minerals, and all rentals, royalties, overriding royalties, limited royalties, working interests, bonuses, oil or gas payments, and all manner of mineral rights and interests, and all manner of revenue or receipts or proceeds therefrom, and all moneys recovered by the Trustees through enforcement and collection of any and all choses in action and claims in any manner arising out of this Trust, in favor of all or any of the parties to or Beneficiaries of this Trust whether as life tenants or remaindermen, shall constitute income of the Trust and none of the revenue or receipts or proceeds in any way or manner derived from any disposition of any of the natural resources of any lands of the Trust Estate or otherwise collected or received by the Trustees ... shall be deemed a part of the principal or corpus of the Trust Estate ... but all such revenues and receipts and proceeds from any manner of disposition of any of the natural resources of lands of the Trust Estate or otherwise as above indicated shall constitute income of the beneficiaries of this Trust and shall not belong to the principal or corpus of the Trust Estate or to the remaindermen under this Trust. The purpose of this clause is to make clear that all moneys received by the Trustees as such under this Trust from any and all sources are to be considered and distributed to the beneficiaries as income. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Benavides v. Mathis
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.