Beck v. Harvey’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2005
1 federal appellate · 15 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 Hudson & Collins v. McGuire · Barker v. Campbell-Ratcliff Land Co. · Kinder v. LaSalle County Carbon Coal Co. · Vogel v. Cobb · Shell Oil Co., Inc. v. Moore
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We believe the better rule to be announced in the foregoing cases to the effect that where, as in the case at bar, the conveyance or reservation uses the words mineral royalty the conveyance or reservation does not include gravel, although there is on the real property involved sand or gravel susceptible of commercial production and use.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Winsett v. Watson“all the oil, gas and other mineral rights”
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.