Trapp v. Atlantic Refining Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gulf Land Co. v. Atlantic Refining Co. · Railroad Commission of Texas v. Shell Oil Co. · Nash v. Shell Petroleum Corp. · Atlantic Oil Production Co. v. Railroad Commission · Railroad Commission v. Marathon 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The uniform holding has been that the criterion implicit in this exception is whether the well is necessary to protect the owner in his right to obtain his fair share (or the equivalent thereof) of the recoverable oil underlying his land. Both of these exceptions were discussed and upheld in Gulf Land Co. v. Atlantic Refining Co., 134 Texas 59 , 131 S.W. 2d 73 . Since the issue raised in this contention has been so conclusively adjudicated, its discussion as an original proposition is both unnecessary and undesirable.””
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.