Rees v. Briscoe’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Panama Processes, S.A. v. Cities Service Co. (1990), 243 F. Supp. 793 - Hammonds v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company (1965)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 19 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 Trice v. Comstock · Probst v. Hughes · Hivick v. Urschel · Clements v. Cates · Phoenix Oil Co. v. Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is unreasonable to assume that Rees would assign his lease for no present consideration unless he felt that he could depend upon Briscoe to undertake the development of the lease.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it would have been easy to have added a few words to the effect that the reservation [of the override] should apply to renewals or extensions of the leases assigned.”
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.