Stephens v. Lundy’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1989
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
Relies on Sanders v. Davis
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.
“Syllabus by the Court. 1. Where an oil and gas lease authorizes the lessee to remove his fixtures “at any time,” such right is not unlimited as to time, but the lessee is entitled to remove same within a reasonable time after expiration of the lease; and what is a reasonable time is to be determined from all the facts and circumstances of each particular case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The apparent reason why the casing was not pulled and well plugged before May, 1933, was the possibility of other parties taking it over with a view of making a producing well out of it. The lessors indicated same in their answer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Donnell v. Gray
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.