Griffith v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Kelly v. Zamarello (1971), McMahon v. Christmann (1957)
3 federal appellate · 48 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 State Nat'l Bk. of Corpus Christi v. Morgan · Sheppard v. Stanolind Oil & Gas Co. · Carroll v. Bowen · Morriss v. First Nat. Bank of Mission · Texas Co. v. Fontenot
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ — it may be that the words ‘bonus’ and ‘royalty’ in their, broadest concepts and meanings are conflicting and overlapping. On the other hand, when it is necessary that they be distinguished there is a narrower concept of the two terms as they are ordinarily and commonly used and understood in the oil and gas industry in which they do not conflict but are harmonious.- In this narrower sense a reservation or a payment of a part or percentage of production under a lease which is to continue throughout the life of the lease is regarded as ‘royalty’, and a sum certain to be paid in cash or out of production is regarded as ‘bonus’.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * ‘The words “bonus”, “rental”, and “royalty” used in connection with oil and gas leases are to be construed in the ordinary and popular sense, “bonus” meaning the cash consideration paid or agreed to be paid for the execution of the lease, “rental” being the consideration for the privilege of delaying drilling operations, and “royalty” being a share of the product or proceeds therefrom reserved to the owner for permitting another to use the property/ * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Andretta v. West“Royalty ... is commonly understood to be that part or share of production reserved or to be paid during the life of the lease; and generally speaking, the royalty created, excepted, or reserved under the terms of an oil and gas lease, is the right to receive, either in kind or its equivalent in money, a stipulated fraction of the oil or gas produced and saved from property covered by the lease, free of all costs of development and production.”
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.