Flying Diamond Corp. v. Rust’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2025
1 district · 12 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 Getty Oil Company v. Jones · Frankfort Oil Company v. Abrams · Diamond Shamrock Corp. v. Phillips · O'Connor v. Great Lakes Pipe Line Co. · Fulkerson v. Great Lakes Pipe Line 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]herever there exist separate ownerships of interests in the same land, each should have the right to the use and enjoyment of his interest in the property to the highest degree possible not inconsistent with the rights of the other. We do not mean to be understood as saying that such a lessee must use any possible alternative. But he is obliged to pursue one which is reasonable and practical under the circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The general rule which is approved by all jurisdictions that have considered the matter is that the ownership (or rights of a lessee) of mineral rights in land is dominant over the rights of the owner of the fee to the extent reasonably necessary to extract the minerals therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“consistent with allowing the fee owner the greatest possible use of his property”
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.