Pich v. Lankford’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Mills v. Brown (1958), Waters v. Ellis (1958)
51 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 Woods v. Sims · Benge v. Scharbauer · Richardson v. Hart · King v. First National Bank of Wichita Falls · Klein v. Humble Oil & Refining Co.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Save and Except an undivided three-fourths of the oil, gas and other minerals in and under the Southwest Quarter thereof, and an undivided one- fourth of the minerals in and under the remainder of said survey, which minerals do not belong to the grantors herein.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Further, when certain tracts excepted are specifically described, and it is further recited that they have been previously sold or conveyed, the exception will be good, although the recital is false since it may be rejected, or although the prior conveyance did not effectuate a transfer of the property described therein, or even though the property previously conveyed reverts to the grantor by reason of the grantee in the prior conveyance ceasing to use it for the purpose prescribed in the deed.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Melton v. Davis“The giving of a false reason for an exception from a grant does not operate to alter or cut down the interest or estate excepted, nor dues it operate to pass the excepted interest or estate to the grantee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. Havard
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.