State v. Snyder’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2025 · most notably Carpenter v. Shaw (1930), Norris v. Vaughan (1953)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 40 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 Von Baumbach v. Sargent Land Co. · State ex rel. Davis-Smith Co. v. Clausen · Williamson v. Jones · Swayne v. Lone Acre Oil Co. · Ohio Oil Co. v. Daughetee
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We can find no cases where the proceeds of mineral leases, under circumstances such as exist in the case at bar, have been treated as ordinary rental in the sense contended for; and the authorities are numerous — extending as far back into the centuries of the past of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence as the fights available permit us to search and find — and are unanimous in holding that the proceeds arising therefrom under facts similar to those in the case at bar are and must be treated as principal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Andrews v. Brown“Oil and gas, while in situ, are part of the realty; part of the corpus of the land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burnell v. Roush
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.