Wakefield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1998
6 federal appellate · 12 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 Earp v. Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. · Peppers Refining Co. v. Corporation Commission · H. F. Wilcox Oil & Gas Co. v. State · Amis v. Bryan Petroleum Corp. · Superior Oil Co. v. Oklahoma Corporation Commission
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A statute authorizing the Corporation Commission to regulate production of oil and gas so as to prevent waste and to secure equitable apportionment among owners of the leasehold interest of the oil and gas underlying their land, and to fairly distribute among them, the costs of production and of the apportionment is a proper exercise of the police power and does not violate the provisions of the State or Federal Constitutions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The parties cannot successfully assert their common law rights as tenants in common, for such a tenancy actually does not exist.””
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.