Jameson v. Ethyl Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2015
2 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 Osborn v. Arkansas Territorial Oil & Gas Co. · Railroad Commission of Texas v. Manziel · Dobson v. Arkansas Oil & Gas Commission · Whitaker & Co. v. Sewer Improvement District No. 1 · Greyhound Leasing & Financial Corp. v. Joiner City Unit
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Inherent in [Arkansas's unitization laws] is the realization that transient minerals such as oil, gas, and brine will be wasted if a single landowner is able to thwart secondary recovery processes, while conversely acknowledging a need to protect each landowner's rights to some equitable portion of pools of such minerals. A determination that a trespass or nuisance occurs through secondary recovery processes within a recovery area would tend to promote waste of such natural resources and extend unwarranted bargaining power to minority landowners. On the other hand, a determination that the rule of capture should be expanded to cover the present situation could unnecessarily extend the license of mineral extraction companies to appropriate minerals which might be induced to be moved from other properties through such processes and, in any event, further extend the bargaining power of such entities to reduce royalty payments to landowners who are financially unable to `go and do likewise' as suggested by [the bromine producer].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The underlying reason for adoption of the rule of capture by Arkansas and other states was the acknowledged impracticality of tracing ownership of a transient substance which migrated from lands of one owner to lands of someone else.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“had reached the decision in the Budd case that it was immaterial whether the lands were inside or outside of [a brine producer's] peripheral area of input wells.”
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.