Maynard v. McHenry’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2005 · most notably Anderson & Kerr Drilling Co. v. Bruhlmeyer (1940), Calvert Joint Venture 140 v. Snider (2003)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 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 Scott v. Laws · Hudson & Collins v. McGuire · McKinney's Heirs v. Cen. Ky. Nat. Gas. Co. · 1 E.H. Smith 495 - Armstrong v. Lake Champlain Granite Co. · Kentucky Diamond Mining & Developing Co. v. Kentucky Transvaal Diamond 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is only where the language of the grant or exception is ambiguous that extrinsic evidence is admissible, and, if there are no restrictive words, a conveyance or exception of minerals will include oil and gas. * * * jn deed before us, the language of the reservation is not ambiguous, and no restrictive words are used.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The mere fact that a particular mineral has not been discovered in the vicinity of the land conveyed or is unknown at the time the deed is executed does not alter the rule.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.