Standard v. Sadler’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Acker v. Texas Water Commission (1990), Selective Life Insurance v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States (1967)
4 federal appellate · 26 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 Oklahoma v. Texas · Empire Gas & Fuel Co. v. State · Greene v. Robison · Empire Gas & Fuel Co. v. State · Gordon v. Lake
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What we hold is that Art. 3281 confers no power on the Commissioner to execute leases for oil and gas and other mineral development on escheated land which has been sold by the State from the Permanent Free School Fund. And we hold further that when the full fee title to es-cheated land is owned by the Fund and the land is sold with a reservation of all minerals, the Relinquishment Act of 1919 constitutes the owner of the soil the agent of the State for the purpose of negotiating and executing oil and gas leases thereon. We assume the Commissioner of the General Land Office will recognize the lease executed by Standard as a valid lease and that he will receive and file the certified copy thereof as required by law. Writ of mandamus will issue only if he refuses to do so.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Standard
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.