Yelderman v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2015
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Veal v. Thomason · Grissom v. Anderson · Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Clark · Industrial Life Insurance Company v. Finley · Texas & Pacific Coal & Oil Co. v. Kirtley
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The authority granted the lessee ... to effect a unitization of the mineral interests included [in the lease] with other mineral interests in the immediate vicinity constituted him the agent of the lessors with limited authority_ A principal will be held to have ratified the unauthorized action of his agent in dealing with his property by any conduct affirming the action, including the acceptance of benefits flowing therefrom, if the principal has knowledge of the agent’s action. (Emphasis supplied)”
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.