Young v. Ethyl Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 771 · 1975
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2018
3 federal appellate · 3 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 Brown v. Spilman · Elliff v. Texon Drilling. Co. · Osborn v. Arkansas Territorial Oil & Gas Co. · Yoder v. Nu-Enamel Corp. · Railroad Commission of Texas v. Manziel
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Accordingly, the appellant has a vested existing property right in the brominated salt water underlying his land, and the action of the defendants in forcibly removing that solution by means of injection and production wells on surrounding property constitutes an actionable trespass.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ . . .In our view, if the Supreme Court of Arkansas were faced with this record, it would hold that the rule of capture does not apply, and that the defendants’ actions in forcibly removing valuable minerals from beneath Young’s land constitute an actionable trespass.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the brine solution under his land would not migrate to the defendants' production wells but for the force exerted by injection wells; in other words, that the brine is primarily 'non-fugacious.'”
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.