Scott v. Laws’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Radke v. Union Pacific Railroad Company (1959), Jilek v. Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal Co. (1943)
8 federal appellate · 65 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 Williams v. Gibson · McKinney's Heirs v. Cen. Ky. Nat. Gas. Co. · Kentucky Diamond Mining & Developing Co. v. Kentucky Transvaal Diamond Co. · Kennedy v. Hicks · Farnsworth v. Barret
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since oil and gas' are minerals, and there is nothing in tbe language of the deed in question which shows that the parti.es contemplated something less general than all substances legally cognizable as minerals, we conclude that tbe title to tbe oil and gas necessarily passed by the conveyance.””
2 later decisions 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.