Sugg v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1945
9 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 Kies v. Williams · Ohio Valley Oil & Gas Co. v. Irvin Development 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this ease the development of the property was not the sole consideration. On the contrary, the lessees paid the lessors $1,000.00 in cash. The lessees within one year drilled four wells into the oil bearing sands.””
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.