Ward v. Gohlke’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2004
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Veal v. Thomason · Southland Royalty Co. v. Humble Oil & Refining Co. · Hodge v. Ellis · Wright v. Wright · Avery v. Johnson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The last paragraph of the W. J. Stork, Jr., ratification, above quoted, was clearly a ‘no prejudice clause.’ While Stork ratified the primary lease as written, it was without prejudice 'to his claim that the royalty interests under the primary lease were not pooled. Neither this clause nor the instrument taken as a whole provides that Stork’s royalty interest (with the exception of the override) shall not be pooled, but leaves the matter to a construction of the primary instrument.””
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.