Terry v. Humphreys’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Federal Land Bank of Wichita v. Board of County Commissioners (1961), Dabney v. Edwards (1935)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 65 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 Joseph Guffey v. James a Smith · Poe v. Ulrey · Watford Oil & Gas Co. v. Shipman · Parker v. Riley · Lowther Oil Co. v. Miller-Sibley Oil Co.
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When oil has been extracted and the lease has been performed, either in whole or in part, the question of the division between a life tenant and the remainderman has sometimes been called in question. In such a case the courts treat the various interests in the oil and gas, whether in the ground or by sale converted into a fund, as real estate, * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fullerton v. Kaune“[A]ny transfer or conveyance attempted to be made of the real property of the community by either husband or wife alone shall be void and of no effect . . . (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Padilla v. Roller
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.