Delatte v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Odom v. Union Producing Company (1962), Peironnet v. Matador Resources Co. (2013)
42 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. Shell Oil Co. · Le Blanc v. Danciger Oil & Refining Co. · Union Oil Company of California v. Touchet · Everett v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Crichton v. Lee
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . the drilling and production of oil from a unitized area constitutes an exercise and user of the mineral rights throughout the entire unit and operates as a substitute for performance of drilling obligations contained in a mineral lease covering any property or tract located within the unit.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . Unit B [which was established by order of the Conservation Commissioner] in which a portion of the leased premises was embraced constituted a developed area as defined by the conservation statute, supra, and therefore defendant Woods was relieved from any drilling obligation called for by his lease as extended on that portion of the leased premises embraced within said Unit B. 4”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Lessee is hereby granted the power and right, at its option and without Lessors' joinder or further consent, at any time while this lease is in force, either before or after production, to combine and pool the lease, mineral and royalty rights in all the lands covered by this lease or any portion thereof with any other land, lands, lease, leases, mineral and royalty rights or any of them, adjacent, adjoining or located within the immediate vicinity of this lease, whether owned by Lessee or some other person, firm or corporation so as to create by such combination and pooling one or more drilling or production units. It is further agreed that Lessee may limit such pooling and unitization to any one or more producing horizons, and as to any one or more products, and, if limited, may extend the same from time to time as Lessee may deem advisable so as to make any such pooling and unitization apply and extend to any other formation or formations, product or products, in addition to the formation or formations, product or products, originally designated, and Lessee may also declare any unit or units so as to conform to any valid rule or regulations of the Department of Conservation of the State of Louisiana touching upon or regulating that subject. Each such drilling or production unit shall not exceed 640 acres plus a tolerance not to exceed 10% of 640 acres when created for the purpose of drilling for or producing gas, distillate or condensate, or any combination of such produc”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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