Southern Title Insurance v. Oller’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Heinatz v. Allen · Acker v. Guinn · Missouri Pac. Rd., Thompson, Trustee v. Strohacker · Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. Rummell · Carson v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Co., Thompson
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The rationale expressed in some of these cases is that, although limestone is of commercial value, it is not rare or exceptional in character. Further, being a part of or near the top soil, as here, when quarried, the surface soil is destroyed for agricultural or grazing purposes. It would therefore be unreasonable to construe the reservation to include the right to destroy the surface of the property."”
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.