Coghill v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “undivided one-half (1/2) Royalty ... of all the oil, gas and/or other minerals in, to, and under or that may be produced”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. U.S. Shale Energy II, LLC, Raymond B. Roush, Ruthie Roush Dodge, and David E. Roush v. Laborde Properties, L.P., and Laborde Management, Llc

2. “an undivided one-eighth (1/8) interest in and to all of the oil royalty [and] gas royalty”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. U.S. Shale Energy II, LLC, Raymond B. Roush, Ruthie Roush Dodge, and David E. Roush v. Laborde Properties, L.P., and Laborde Management, Llc

3. “contemplate[d] the possibility of a future lease containing a larger royalty”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. U.S. Shale Energy II, LLC, Raymond B. Roush, Ruthie Roush Dodge, and David E. Roush v. Laborde Properties, L.P., and Laborde Management, Llc