Bolack v. Hedges’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2014
4 federal appellate · 10 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Terry v. Humphreys · Duvall v. Stone · Vanzandt v. Heilman · Quintana v. Vigil
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The appellee cites many cases in support of her argument that our former decisions on the subject are erroneous, and should now be overruled and we should hold these oil and gas leases-create only personal property, at least until actual production of oil and gas is obtained. The oil industry in New Mexico has adjusted itself to the rule announced in the Terry case and we do not feel we should now change the rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Padilla v. Roller“An oil lease does not create the ordinary relation of landlord and tenant.”
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.