Cuff v. Koslosky’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Franklin v. Margay Oil Corp. (1944), Burns v. Bastien (1935)
5 federal appellate · 31 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 Champlin Refining Co. v. Corporation Commission · United States v. Noble · Rich v. Doneghey · Kolachny v. Galbreath · Lowther Oil Co. v. Miller-Sibley Oil 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is settled law that oil and gas in place are minerals, and that so long as they remain unsevered from the soil are a part of the realty.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““This court, in the case of Brennan v. Hunter, 68 Okla. 112 , 172 P. 49 , announced the following rule relative to oil and gas leases: “ 'The lessees thereby acquired a vested, though limited, estate in the lands for the purpose named in the lease, and are entitled to be protected in the exercise of their rights according to the terms and conditions of the contract. . . . The views above expressed are sustained by the great weight of authority, if not by the unanimous opinions of the courts.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Under such a plan, there is usually a provision as to the payment of future rentals and unacerued royalties in the event oil and gas are found. There seems no apparent reason why this property should not be held, conveyed, and transmitted by will or inheritance as a separate estate, especially in so far as it relates to the unaccrued rentals and unacerued royalties provided for in an existing oil and gas lease to which the mineral deed may be subject.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCully v. McCully
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.