Hunt v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2005
2 federal appellate · 14 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 United North & South Oil Co. v. Meredith · Richardson v. McCloskey · Temple State Bank v. Mansfield · United North & South Oil Co. v. Meredith · Crawford v. Crawford
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the doctrine of ownership in place obtains in this state, drainage cannot be enjoined, and the value of that ownership depends entirely upon reducing such minerals to possession by bringing them to the surface. No cause of action lies in the owner of the surface against his neighbor for draining the oil and gas from under his land. It. is obvious therefore, that the opportunity of the owner of the land to secure production therefrom is largely, if not almost entirely, dependent upon the validity of his title. And the mere fact that the title to the land is in dispute, or in litigation, as here, greatly impedes, if it does not entirely prevent, production of oil and gas on a given tract. And where wells on the adjacent lands are owned and operated by the same parties who claim the land in dispute, as was shown in this case, and are draining the lands in question, a case is presented calling for immediate relief, pending a determination of ownership of the title. Appointment of a receiver to effect such development, and to produce the oil that would otherwise drain into wells on other lands, and so be lost to the owners of the land in controversy, has been approved by the courts as proper and effectual. [Three Texas cases cited.] The fact that wells on adjoining lands were already in operation daily draining the oil and gas shown to belong to the state, from the land in question, which could not be replaced, and removing it beyond possibility of recovery, and that the onl”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Johnston
How this case has been treated — in progress
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