Cain v. Neumann’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Navajo Tribe of Indians v. United States (1966), Ridge Oil Co., Inc. v. Guinn Investments, Inc. (2004)
20 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 Texas Company v. W.H. Daugherty · Veal v. Thomason · The Texas Company v. Davis · Anderson & Kerr Drilling Co. v. Bruhlmeyer · Trust Co., Indp. Exctr. v. Bauereisen
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * ‘If gas or other minerals are found, party of the second part agrees to pay to the party of the first part, one-tenth (¼o) of the market value of said gas or minerals so found and marketed.’ * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Guinn v. Acker“The broad language of the 1918 lease which granted “all of the oil, gas, coal and other minerals,” . . . reveals an unrestricted grant of minerals, including uranium.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“oil, gas, or other minerals can be produced thereon.”
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.