Andrews v. Andrews’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions

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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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““» * * And if the whole territory had been developed and the wells in operation under the lease prior to the time the life estate accrued, the royalty, as we have seen, would be payable to the life tenant. The life tenant’s right to the rents and profits from open wells rests upon the lawfulness of the severance and conversion of the oil into personalty under the lease. Although the additional wells had not been drilled, yet the right to drill them existed at the beginning of the life estate. The life tenant, has not attemped to grant any new right. The additional wells are not opened by any authority from her. They may be opened by virtue of the lease without reference to her wishes in the matter. The opening of new wells under the lease is practically the act by the testator. He authorized the act by the lease, and in contemplation of law the wells may be treated as already opened when the life estate accrued.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lawley v. Richardson