Inman v. Milwhite Co.’s Empirical Analysis
402 F.2d 122 · 1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1997
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Mansfield Gas Co. v. Alexander · Ezzell v. Oil Associates, Inc. · Lawrence v. Mahoney · Bodcaw Oil Co. v. Atlantic Refining Co. · Smith v. Moody
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled in Arkansas that where the actual, moving consideration for a mining lease or for an oil and gas lease is the expectation of royalties on minerals to be extracted from the leased premises, and where the lease is silent as to development and operation, the lessee is held to be bound by implied covenant to develop and operate the premises with reasonable diligence; a failure on the part of the lessee to do so is ground for forfeiture. Where, as here, however, the contracting parties have dealt specifically with the question of development and operation, their agreement governs, and “there can be no reason or implication.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.