Moore v. Sawyer’s Empirical Analysis
167 F. 826 · 1909
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
January 1925
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Simmons Creek Coal Co. v. Doran · Brown v. United States · William Smith v. Guy Richards · Brewster v. Lanyon Zinc Co. · Pickering v. Lomax
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An instrument in terms granting all tlie oil, gas, coal, and asphaltum under certain described land, but which was denominated a lease, had a definite term of 15 years, and provided, in addition to a cash payment of $50, for the payment of a royalty on all oil produced, held not a conveyance in fee of the minerals in place, but merely a lease.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Browning v. Boswell“protect the Indian against the improvident disposition of his property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anicker v. Gunsburg
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.