Colpitt v. Tull’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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.

1. ““To permit the lessee to hold the lease for an unreasonable length of time for merely speculative purposes, is to allow him to protect his own interest and to disregard the interest of the lessor. If conditions do not indicate to him that further development will be profitable, it is but fair that, after a reasonable time has expired, he surrender the undeveloped portions of the lease and allow the lessor to procure development by others or assume the burden of showing why in equity- and good conscience the undeveloped portion should not be cancelled so that the owner may, if possible, get it developed by others.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sand Springs Home v. Clemens

2. ““The. second proposition. is that in order to invoke the doctrine of implied covenant to drill additional wells there must be a demand to fulfill the requirements of the implied covenant, and that lessor cannot maintain an action for. the breach thereof unless the lessee has been given reasonable notice to fulfill the requirements. In this case the evidence clearly shows reasonable notice. * * * tf”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kunc v. Harper-Turner Oil Company