Roberson v. Pioneer Gas Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Palmer v. Bender (1933), 3 Cal. 2d 110 - Callahan v. Martin (1935)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 83 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 Joseph Guffey v. James a Smith · Frost-Johnson Lumber Co. v. Salling's Heirs · Board of Com'rs of Caddo Levee Dist. v. Pure Oil Co. · Logan v. State Gravel Co. · Smith v. Sun 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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The reason why an obligation to pay an overriding royalty, ... in a transfer of a lease, ... even though the transaction be called an assignment or a sale of the lease, characterizes the transaction as a sublease, and not merely an assignment, is that, in oil and gas leases, under the settled jurisprudence of this state, the payment of a royalty is the payment of rent, and is not the payment of a price for the oil or gas rights, as if they were sold." [Emphasis in original.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * The reason for that is that the defendant thereby disposed absolutely of its interest in the lease on the 40 acres of land, and left no contractual relation whatever between the parties, or obligations on the part of the assignee in favor of the assignor * * *”
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.