Hardy v. Union Producing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Hunter Co. v. Shell Oil Co. (1947), Delatte v. Woods (1957)
4 federal appellate · 36 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 Hunter Co. v. McHugh · Hunter Co. v. McHugh · Hood v. Southern Production Co. · Dillon v. Holcomb · 19 So. 2d 302 - Finlay v. Standard Acc. Ins. 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"And further, plaintiffs as the owners of the leased premises are entitled to receive the same proportionate share of the revenues from producing wells on any lands in the unitized area as they would receive if a well producing in paying quantities were drilled upon the property covered by the lease. In other words, if a well were drilled on their tract of land, the production would be prorated among all the owners of mineral rights in the drilling unit in the same proportion in which the production is now being distributed."”
5 later decisions 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.