Soaper v. King’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 district · 31 state decisions

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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘Generally, all leases of land for the exploration and development of minerals are executed by the lessor in the hope and upon the condition, either express or implied, that the land shall be developed for minerals; and it would be unjust and unreasonable, and contravene the nature and spirit of the lease, to allow the lessee to continue to hold under it any considerable length of time without making any effort at all to develop it according to the express or implied purpose of the lease.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Browning v. Cavanaugh

2. ““Such contracts have been held by this court to be unenforceable, on the ground that they are unilateral, and lack mutuality of obligation, which is essential to the validity of contracts.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lindlay v. Raydure

3. ““The cases sustaining the ruling in the Richardson Case are collected in the note in 11 L. R. A. (N. S.) 419 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lindlay v. Raydure