Wainwright v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2017
14 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 Clifton v. Koontz · MacDonald v. Follett · Garcia v. King · Watson v. Rochmill · Woodson Oil Company v. Pruett
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.
“If the clause is of the type that is combined with the habendum clause and provides “and so long thereafter as oil or gas is produced from the land or the premises being developed or operated,” it has an apparently broad purpose of preserving the lease during operations as well as during production without regard to whether the operation began during the primary term or began after its expiration. Accordingly, such clause should be construed to preserve the lease while the lessee continues to conduct operations, regardless of when the operation began so long as it began while the lease was in effect. [Emphasis added.]”
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.