Edwards v. Hardwick’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2011
4 federal appellate · 9 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 Wells v. Shriver · White v. A. C. Houston Lbr. Co. · Gallaspy v. Warner · Southard v. Oil Equipment Corporation · Henry v. Clay
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [a] joint interest in the property by the parties sought to be held as partners, (2) [an] agreement, express or implied, to share in the profits and losses of the venture, and (3) actions and conduct showing cooperation in the project.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to refer to post-drilling actions undertaken with respect to a producible well). As the Supreme Court of Oklahoma concluded in 1960: When used to determine the commencement of a period of time in which an act is to be performed or a right is to be exercised ... the word”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“means a well drilled to the specified sand or depth, and such means known to the industry have been employed to produce oil”
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.