Wiley v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Texas Co. v. State Mineral Board (1949), Palmer Corporation of Louisiana v. Moore (1930)
4 federal appellate · 21 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 Frost-Johnson Lumber Co. v. Salling's Heirs · Hanby v. Texas Co. · Gray v. Spring
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.
“the granting of a mineral lease on property is the granting of a servitude thereon [citation] and hence constitutes a dismemberment of said property amounting to a partial alienation thereof.”
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.