Duvall v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably Cooper v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc. (2002), Elliott Industries Limited Partnership v. Bp America Production Company Bp J (2005)
4 federal appellate · 39 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 Texas Company v. W.H. Daugherty · United States v. Noble · Sheffield v. Hogg · 3 Cal. 2d 110 - Callahan v. Martin · Calcote v. Texas Pac. Coal & Oil Co.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a grant or reservation of the underlying oil and gas, or royalty rights provided for in a mineral lease as commonly used in this state, is a grant or reservation of real property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Royalty’ interest in oil and gas reserved in a deed or provided for in an oil and gas lease, is a share of the product or profits (ordinarily %) reserved by the owner for permitting another to develop his property for oil and gas, usually without expense to the property owner.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““unless the intention to limit an assignment of oil royalties to a particular lease is by clear and unequivocable language, the royalty will be construed to apply to any existing or subsequent lease.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Corbett v. La Bere
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.