McCaskey v. Schrock’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1976
7 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 Smith v. Texas & New Orleans Railroad · Lynch v. Alexander Ortlieb & Co. · G., C. & S. F. R'y Co. v. Jones
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is especially understood and agreed by • and between the parties to this contract that the primary object hereof is to aggregate a large body of land in the same vicinity of sufficient acreage to permit development and prospecting for the production of oil, gas and other minerals; and it is further understood and agreed that this contract is one of a number of similar contracts executed by the several owners of land in said vicinity with said lessees, and that the consideration moving to each lessor is the general development of the section embraced within the scope of these leases, and the benefit which each lessor will derive from the exploration and prospecting of said land in said vicinity for oil, gas and other minerals. And as a further and additional consideration moving to each of the several lessors (including the lessor in this contract) is the agreement and contract on the part of said lessees within one year to begin drilling and to prosecute with all reasonable diligence a well within the area of the block of land herein before mentioned, testing the said block of land for oil, gas and other minerals.””
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.