Bradshaw v. Hurt’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1945
2 district · 7 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 · Monarch Oil & Gas Co. v. Hunt · Sugg v. Williams
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.
““It is' shown in the evidence in this case that the well drilled by appellants on appellee’s lands cost a large sum of money. This expenditure in drilling the well was a detriment to the lessee and this detriment was a sufficient consideration to support an agreement to cancel all rentals for the balance of the term. No one, we think, would insist that a landowner might not for a sufficiently valuable ■consideration agree to. lease his1 land for oil and gas to another for a term of ten years without requiring development or the further payment of rentals. If he can do this, as it must be admitted he can, then he may agree with his lessee that if the latter will drill a well on his premises to the oil bearing formation such drilling (which manifestly costs a large sum) shall operate.as a full liquidation of all future rentals under the lease.””
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.