Hickey v. Dirks’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 1981 · most notably Shepard v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance (1962), Cosgrove v. Young (1981)
33 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 Richards v. Shearer · Kansas Natural Gas Co. v. Board of County Commissioners · Robinson v. Jones · Rathbun v. Williams · Davis v. Hurst
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As we have had frequent occasion to observe, terms relating to conveyances of off and gas interests have often been loosely and inaccurately used. (Volker v. Crumpacker, 154 Kan. 403, 405 , 118 P. 2d 540 , and cases there cited.) This is particularly true with reference to the term ‘royalty.’ A mineral deed is one which involves a severance, from the fee, of a present title to minerals in place. It either effects such severance of title in the first instance or conveys a part of such mineral ownership previously carved from the fee. It is a realty conveyance. (Rathbun v. Williams, 154 Kan. 601, 604 , 121 P. 2d 243 , and cases there cited.) ‘Royalty’ is that part of oil and gas payable to the lessor by the lessee out of oil and gas produced. It is sometimes referred to as part of the compensation to the title owner for the privilege of exploring, developing, and producing oil and gas from the tract. Under our statutes and decisions it is regarded as personal property. (G. S. 1935, 79-329, 79-330; Rathbun v. Williams, supra; Davis v. Hurst, 150 Kan. 130 , 90 P. 2d 1100 , and cases there cited.)” (p. 327. See also, Shepard, Executrix v. John Hancock Mutual Life Ins. Co., 189 Kan. 125 , 368 P. 2d 19 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Corbin v. Moser
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.