Minchen v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2017
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Veal v. Thomason · Sheffield v. Hogg · State v. Quintana Petroleum Co. · Tennant v. Dunn · Brown v. Smith
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is quite elementary that an instrument payable upon a condition which does not import an absolute liability is not payable until that condition has happened, [citations omitted].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he sole purpose of a mineral lease is to develop the property in order to produce the minerals”
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.