Coats v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2003
5 federal appellate · 4 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 Freeport Sulphur Co. v. American Sulphur Royalty Co. · Cowden v. Broderick & Calvert, Inc. · Gulf Production Co. v. Kishi · Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Strauss · Perkins v. Mitchell
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If no will be commenced on said land on or before the 18 day of October, 1963, this lease shall terminate as to both parties unless the Lessee on or before that date shall pay or tender to Lessor ... a sum equal to 10$ per acre . . . which shall operate as a rental . . . and cover the privilege of deferring the commencement of a well for 12 months from said date. In a like manner and upon like payments or tenders the commencement of a well may be further deferred for like periods of the same number of months successively for the second to tenth rental years inclusive. For the eleventh to twentieth years inclusive, the rental shall be increased to the sum of 25$ per acre, . . . Lessee shall have the right to drill as many wells on the leased premises as it in its sole discretion, shall deem are necessary for the development of the leased premises, and shall be under no obligation to drill any well which it, in its sole discretion, does not deem to be necessary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The provisions of the lease of October 28, 1936, as expressed in sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are not controlled by the sentence — ‘The judgment of the lessee, when not fraudulently exercised, in carrying out the purposes of this lease shall be conclusive.’ — or by section 8 of the lease, for such subsequent provisions are plainly contradictory of the express purposes of the lease and to sustain the contradictory sections destroys and renders the lease inoperative and void.””
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.