Cantrell v. Garrard’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Lohse v. Atlantic Richfield Co. (1986), Taber v. Pettus Oil & Refining Co. (1942)
3 federal appellate · 23 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 35 Tex. Civ. App. 181 - Penn v. Texas Yellow Pine Lumber Co. · Patton v. Rucker · Jones v. Carver · Zanderson v. Sullivan · Rosen v. Phelps
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A contract for the sale or conveyance of the lease under consideration was required by our statutes to he in writing. R. S. arts. 1103 and 3965. The lease itself constituted the subject-matter of the contract. The land upon which the lease was given was one of the essential elements of description, but not by any means the only one. The term for which the lease was to run, the time for beginning drilling operations, the time and amount of payments in lieu of drilling operations, and the amount to be paid for gas produced, were also essential elements of description.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anders v. Johnson
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.