Sample v. Whitaker’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently November 1997 · most notably Ross v. La Coste De Monterville (1987), Pickett v. RTS Helicopter (1997)
15 federal appellate · 52 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
Relies on Frost-Johnson Lumber Co. v. Salling's Heirs · Palmer Corporation of Louisiana v. Moore · Clark v. Tensas Delta Land Co. · Sample v. Whitaker · Phelps v. Reinach
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As S. G. Sample acquired the real es.tate, on which he made the mineral reservation, during the existence of the community, the mineral rights reserved constituted an asset of the community, and, upon the death of Mrs. Sample, her undivided half interest in those rights descended to her children.” (Italics are the writer’s.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ford v. Williams““If among the coproprietors there be one against whom prescription cart not run, as for instance a minor, he shall preserye the right of all the others.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“servitude is extinguished by the non-usage of the same during ten years”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Byrd v. Forgotson
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.