Hillard v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2004
6 federal appellate · 6 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 Lightcap v. Mobil Oil Corporation · Texas Oil & Gas Corporation v. Vela · Tara Petroleum Corp. v. Hughey · Montana Power Co. v. Kravik · 401 So. 2d 600 - Henry v. Ballard & Cordell Corp.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gas lease constitutes a present sale of all of the gas in place at the time such lease is executed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Purchasers to pay same price for royalty gas as operator or lessee is paid for his interest. — It shall be the duty of both the lessee, or his assignee, and any pipe line company, corporation or individual contracting for the purchase of oil or gas under any oil, gas or . mineral lease to protect the royalty or lessors interest by paying to such lessor or his assignees the same price including such premiums, steaming charges, and bonuses of whatsoever name, for royalty oil or gas that is paid such operator or lessee under such lease for the working interest thereunder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If, ... § 53-511 converts all “fixed price” gas leases into “proceeds” leases, it follows that fixed prices favorable to a lessor or higher “fixed price” leases would be converted into “proceeds” leases. That is not the intent of the statute. Nor is it to prohibit fixed price contracts for oil and gas leases. Absent indications previously referenced, it is clear that §§ 53-511 and 53-514 are inapplicable in this case and could not under the circumstances cause Stephens to forfeit the leases to the Hillards.”
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.