Cannon v. Cassidy’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Oil and gas leases ordinarily do not contain an express provision empowering the lessor or royalty owner to declare a forfeiture thereof for the nonpayment of gas well rentals or oil and gas royalties from production. In the absence of such a provision the courts in most jurisdictions refuse to enforce a forfeiture for the nonpayment of royalties by decreeing a cancellation of the lease.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schaffer v. Tenneco Oil Co.

2. “Failure to pay royalty or for injury to the land as provided by the lease will not give the lessors sufficient ‘ grounds to declare a forfeiture, unless by the express terms of the lease they are given that right and power.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Roye Realty & Developing, Inc. v. Watson