163 W. Va. 264 - Goodwin v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2015
3 federal appellate · 13 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 Garcia v. King · Gypsy Oil Co. v. Marsh · South Penn Oil Co. v. Snodgrass · Eastern Oil Co. v. Coulehan · McGraw Oil Co. v. Kennedy
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The purpose of an oil and gas lease is to obtain production. Unless lessee obtains production he cannot recover his drilling expense. Lessor depends upon production for receipt of the royalty provided in the lease. This purpose can only be accomplished if the production which can keep the lease effective for an indefinite future period is production in the ordinary sense of the term and hence results in royalties to the lessor. “ ‘From a reading of the entire instrument it is evident that the royalty provision is a primary matter, while the free gas, like the provision for burying lines below plow depth, is a secondary matter.’ ” 163 W.Va. at 268-69 , 255 S.E.2d at 927 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he lease does not in terms say the well must produce gas in ‘paying quantities’ and be marketed. Having no market, the lessee had the right to shut the gas in and pay the stipulated price. It would be of little concern to lessor what was done with the gas, if he gets his payments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'is not merely to have oil or gas flow from the ground but to obtain production that is commercially profitable to both parties,'”
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.