Boatman v. Andre’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably Denver Joint Stock Land Bank of Denver v. Dixon (1942), State v. Pennzoil Co. (1988)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 22 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 Acme Oil and Mining Co. v. Williams · Aye v. Philadelphia Co. · Eastern Oil Co. v. Coulehan · Harris v. Riggs · Phillips v. Hamilton
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... neither the defendant nor his company ... had funds to go on with the drilling of the well they had commenced, but had not completed; that they endeavored for a while to obtain those funds or to get others to take over the work; that they wholly failed in this endeavor; that they were served with cancellation notice relative to the lease of the land on which all their operations had been conducted; that the Osage-Wyoming Oil Company then sold to another every item of personal property it had in this state, including its drilling rig on said lease, with its appurtenances, tools, and casing; that said company unqualifiedly transferred said lease, as well as all its interest in all other leases which it held on the geological oil structure the leases were given to develop .... ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Olson v. Schwartz““The rights granted under such leases are for exploration and development. The title or interest granted is inchoate until oil or gas is found in quantities warranting operation, and courts will not permit the lessee to fail in development and hold the leases for speculative or other purposes, except in strict compliance with his contract for a valuable and sufficient consideration other than suph development.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Abandonment is the relinquishment or surrender of rights or property by one person to another. It includes both the intention to abandon and the external act by which the intention is carried into effect.” 1 Enc. Law, 1. “In determining whether one has abandoned his property or rights, the intention is the first and paramount object of inquiry, for there can be no abandonment without the intention to abandon.” 1 Cyc. 5.”
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.