Woods v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 182 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 217 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Sun Oil Co. (Delaware) v. Madeley (1981), McMahon v. Christmann (1957)
17 federal appellate · 182 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 Benge v. Scharbauer · Richardson v. Hart · Associated Oil Co. v. Hart · Hoffman v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. · Sims v. Woods
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 217 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Generally the parties to an instrument intend every clause to have some effect and in some measure to evidence their agreement, and this purpose should not be thwarted except in the plainest case of necessary repugnance. Even where different parts of the instrument appear to be contradictory and inconsistent with each other, the court will, if possible, harmonize the parts and construe the instrument in such way that all parts may stand and will not strike down any portion unless there is an irreconcilable conflict wherein one part of the instrument destroys in effect another part . [citations omitted].””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““And said above described lands being now under an oil and gas lease originally executed in favor of Not leased and now being held by-, it is understood and agreed that this sale is made subject to said lease, but covers and includes one-fourth of all the oil royalty and gas rental or royalty due and to be paid under the terms of said lease.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gibson v. Watson
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.