Skaggs v. Heard’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1997
7 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331
Relies on Lone Star Gas Co. v. X-Ray Gas Co. · Henshaw v. Texas Natural Resources Foundation · Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Johnson · Cole Petroleum Co. v. United States Gas & Oil Co. · Matzen v. Hugoton Production 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(2) An equal one-fourth (Vi) part of the amount received by Lessee at the well when said gas, including casinghead gas or other gaseous substances produced from said land is sold at the well by Lessees to others; and “(3) An equal one-fourth (Vi) part of the market value at the well of such gas, including cashinghead gas or other gaseous substances produced and saved from said land when not sold at the well but used or sold off the leased premises otherwise than for the purpose hereinafter set forth.” (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““After installation of the compressor Kelley (lessee) operated the lease for about 11 months. He made no attempt before, during or after that time to impose a charge on defendants for a proportionate part of the cost and operation of the compressor.” ( 172 F.Supp. at 814 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The most that can be said for plaintiff, is that the meaning of ‘sold at the well to others’ is doubtful; wherefore the construction placed thereon by the parties becomes important, entitled to great weight and, to my mind is decisive.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.