Jones v. Bedford’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1974
9 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.
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.
“It being clear from the instrument that the interest or estate granted included more than the particular royalty interest payable under the terms of the leases, it becomes unimportant just what was meant by the use of the word “royalty,” since whatever it was, other portions of the instrument show clearly that the conveyance was of a J4 of ⅛, or ⅛⅜, interest in and to all the oil, gas, and other minerals, subject to the leases, but carrying with it the same reversionary interest after the leases ceased to be enforced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barker v. Levy
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.