Guffey v. Stroud’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 1991
7 federal appellate · 10 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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“right to take the oil carried with it by implication the right to tap the gas pockets and to bring to the surface so much of the gas as was necessary in the proper drilling for oil,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it cannot be said that all use of, or interference with, the gas in place was wrongful as against defendant in error. The rule in Shylock's case is not controlling.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.