Howell v. Texaco Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Tax Commission v. Texaco Exploration & Production, Inc. (2005), Samson Resources Co. v. SemCrude, L.P. (In re SemCrude, L.P.) (2009)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Finley U/d/t U/d/t v. Marathon Oil Company · Faulkenberry v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co. · Young v. West Edmond Hunton Lime Unit · Leck v. Continental Oil Co. · Tara Petroleum Corp. v. Hughey
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Market value is the price negotiated by a willing buyer, not obligated to buy, and a willing seller, not obligated to sell, in a free and open market. The term market value has been construed as synonymous with actual value.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“To be actionable, both actual fraud and constructive fraud require detrimental reliance by the person complaining,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. ESTRADA v. KRIZ · ESTRADA v. KRIZ““requires information to be included for each property and month of sale with the payment from the sale of oil or gas. The required information includes: (1) the lease's or well’s identification; (2) '[m]onth and year of sales included in the payment;’ (3) ”[t]otal barrels or MCF attributed to the payment;” (4) price per barrel or price per MCF; (5) the amount of severance and other production taxes, but not windfall profit taxes, attributed to the payment; (6) '[n]et value of total sales attributed to such payment after taxes are deducted;’ (7) owner's interest in decimal form in production from the property; (8) '[o]wner’s share of the [total] value of sales attributed to [such] payment prior to any deductions;’ (9) '[o]wner's share of sales value attributed to such payment less owner’s share of production and severance taxes[.]’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.