Andrews v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2011
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 Stephens County v. Mid-Kansas Oil & Gas Co. · Boswell v. Pannell · Texas v. Harrington · Caruthers v. Leonard · State v. Snyder
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.
“We are unable to resist the conclusion that the bonus constituted a part, and a very substantial part, of the consideration for the entire title to the minerals conveyed by the lease; that it constituted a part of the proceeds of the corpus of the estate; and that its ownership was in the life tenant and remaindermen in the same respective interests as their ownership in the minerals before the lease was executed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oil v. Riemer
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.