Guth v. Texas Co.’s Empirical Analysis
155 F.2d 563 · 1946
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably Emich Motors Corporation and U. S. Acceptance Corporation v. General Motors Corporation and General Motors Acceptance Corporation (1956), Augusta Broadcasting Co. v. United States (1948)
20 federal appellate · 2 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 Messenger v. Anderson · Beckwith v. Talbot · Watford Oil & Gas Co. v. Shipman · Western Oil & Refining Co. v. Venago Oil Corp. · Keiser v. Walsh
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The obligation to pay the lessors their royalties in proportion to their respective interests in the gas, gasoline, and petroleum distillates produced and in possession of the defendant was a several obligation and the plaintiff could sue separately for his proportion of the royalty.”
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.