Wier v. Grubb’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1985
6 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 Amerada Petroleum Corporation v. Reese · Caldwell v. Alton Oil Co. · Hutchinson v. Atlas Oil Co. · Farrell v. Simms · Payne v. Walmsley
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * and Assignee shall thereafter commence operations for the drilling of said well not later than February 1, 1941, and shall thereafter prosecute the drilling of said well to completion, or abandonment, and shall develop the leased premises for oil and gas with reasonable diligence, subject to the terms of said lease.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wier v. Grubb““ * * * time and prompt development become of the essence of such contracts, once oil or gas has been found.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wier v. Grubb
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.