Phillips v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Sauder v. Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. (1934), Stirman v. Exxon Corp. (2002)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 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.
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.
“But it is admitted in argument-and we think rightly so-that the lease does contain an implied covenant that the work of prospecting and development should continue, after the expiration of the year within which the lessee was to commence operation, with reasonable diligence. It is evident that the purpose of the lease was to explore the premises, and, if oil or gas was found therein in paying quantities, to produce and market the same for the mutual benefit of both parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘Abandonment is the relinquishment or surrender of rights or property by one person to another; it includes both the intention to abandon and the external act by which the intention is carried into effect.’ (1 Enc. Law 1.) ‘In determining whether one has abandoned his property or rights, the intention is the first and paramount object of inquiry; for there can be no abandonment without the intention to abandon.’ (1 Cyc. 5.) ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boatman v. Andre
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.