Savage v. Packard’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1986
9 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 Cragin v. Powell · Kean v. Calumet Canal & Improvement Co. · Russell v. Maxwell Land Grant Co. · Goldsmith v. McCoy · Long-Bell Petroleum Co. v. Tritico
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Counsel for the plaintiffs and appellants argue in the opening paragraph of a brief filed here on October 13,-since this case was argued and submitted on rehearing, that of the five defendants here, one, A. G. Thompson, claiming an overriding royalty interest, did not apply for a rehearing; and of the four who did apply for a rehearing, I. R. Packard, claiming ownership of the land, Quad Drilling Corporation, claiming an overriding royalty, Mills Tooke Properties, Inc., the mineral les--see, and Stanley W. Metcalf, claiming an overriding -royalty, the latter two withdrew their application for a rehearing acquiescing in the opinion of this Court handed down on May 29, 1950; thus leaving only a %6th mineral interest involved in this law suit. “While it is true that where one fails' to apply for a rehearing,’ or withdraws his application for a rehearing once applied for, judgment as' to that 'party becomes final after the required time for application for a rehearing has expired, this does not mean that there remains only a %eth mineral interest involved in this suit as contended by plaintiffs. Counsel, has obviously overlooked the fact that the party defendant who did not apply for a rehearing, and the two who withdrew their application after filing, are not -owners of any part of thé realty involved, nor of any of the mineral rights. The defendant Mills Tooke Properties, Inc., was only Packard’s lessee; and the defendants Thompson and Metcalf acquired only so-called overridin”
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.