Reed v. Wylie’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2001 · most notably Plainsman Trading Co. v. Crews (1995), Moser v. United States Steel Corp. (1984)
2 federal appellate · 21 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 Heinatz v. Allen · Acker v. Guinn · Johnson v. Charles William Palomba Co. · Ross v. Green · Atwood v. Rodman
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. the surface estate owner must prove that, as of the date of the instrument being construed, if the substance near the surface had been extracted, that extraction would necessarily have consumed or depleted the land surface.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We now abandon the Acker and Reed approach to determining ownership of minerals and hold that title to a substance which we have determined to be a mineral is held by the owner of the mineral estate as a matter of law. * * * * * * We have ... approved of considering whether the substance is thought to be a mineral within the ordinary and natural meaning of the term.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schwarz v. State
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.