Minchen v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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

1. “"The Court of Civil Appeals, while correct in holding that the oil payment provided for in the oil and gas lease constituted a bonus, erred in holding that the petitioner, Nathan Minchen, who had the right to receive a portion of the bonus as to any lease executed covering the 284.74 acres, was not entitled to receive his proportionate share of such bonus oil payment by virtue of production from such tract of 802.6 acres."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Minchen v. Fields · Minchen v. Fields

2. “the reason of the rule is that where mere executive rights are conferred or reserved, there is no intention evidenced to vest authority to convey a royalty interest reserved or the royalty interest attributable to the minerals leased and to hold that such holder can unitize or pool the interest would allow him to convey such royalty interest because a unitization of the royalty and minerals under different tracts effects a cross-conveyance to the owners of minerals under the various tracts of royalty or minerals so that they all own undivided interests under the unitized tract in the proportion their contribution bears to the unitized tract. Veal v. Thomason, 138 Tex. 341 , 159 S.W.2d 472 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Minchen v. Fields