Meeks v. Harmon’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2013
2 federal appellate · 16 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 Burns v. Bastien · Carroll v. Bowen · Wilson v. Olsen · Melton v. Sneed · Sullivan v. Gray
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where a written contract is complete in itself, and viewed in its entirety, is unambiguous, its language is the only legitimate evidence of what the parties intended. Whether a mineral interest or a royalty interest is conveyed or reserved depends upon the terms of the instrument. "Where neither fraud nor mutual mistake is relied upon to avoid the terms of a written contract and the contract is not ambiguous, the language of the contract, in its entirety, must prevail to determine its true intent and purpose."”
3 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.