Springer Ranch, Ltd. v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 2025
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Coker v. Coker · Valence Operating Co. v. Dorsett · Sun Oil Co. (Delaware) v. Madeley · Heritage Resources, Inc. v. NationsBank · Reilly v. Rangers Management, Inc.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, parties make their own contracts, and it is not within the province of this court to vary their terms in order to protect them from the consequences of their own oversights and failures.”
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.