Kies v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 1970 · most notably Navajo Tribe of Indians v. United States (1966), Warfield Natural Gas Co. v. Allen (1933)
29 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 Monarch Oil, Gas & Coal Co. v. Richardson · Hunt v. Garvin
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The failure of the grantees to pay the rentals in advance did not, nor was [it] intended to, work a forfeiture of the lease. * * * If the contract had contained a clause saying, in effect, that a failure to pay said rentals in advance would work a forfeiture of the lease, it would have been enforceable, but in the absence of such a clause the failure to pay the rentals when due did not have such effect. If the grantees should fail to pay the rentals in advance under the lease, the owner of the surface could maintain an action against them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * Oil lease contracts are an exception to the general rule that deeds and other grants of land or an interest therein are to be construed in favor of the grantee and strongest against the grantor, for in this kind of grants the rule is reversed, and the entire lease and all its terms, and especially forfeiture clauses, are construed strongest against the grantee. * * * ””
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.