Fast v. Whitney’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Moncrief v. Louisiana Land & Exploration Co. (1993), Anderson v. Hess Corp. (2011)
6 federal appellate · 19 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 Kain v. . Larkin · Grover Irrigation & Land Co. v. Lovella Ditch, Reservoir & Irrigation Co. · Hudspeth v. Producers' Oil Co. · Abbott v. . Easton · 25 Tex. Civ. App. 443 - Forney v. Ward
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As we understand these cases, none of them declares, as a matter of law, that there is a distinction between commencing a well, or the drilling of a well, and commencing operations for drilling, with respect to the acts necessary or sufficient to constitute a commencement of the work, or that there is such a distinction in fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Terry v. Texas Co.
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.