Fagg v. Texas Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2013
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 Cantrell v. Garrard · Anders v. Johnson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The particular character of the rights which were to be acquired by the proposed lessee, or the extent or duration, of such rights, is not in any wise disclosed or made ascertainable. The provision relative to ‘an 88 form lease’ can shed no light on those matters, for the reason that the character of printed matter contained in any designated class of oil and gas lease forms depends on what matter various designers of such forms may deem appropriate — and may vary accordingly. As we see it, the reference to ‘an 88 form lease’ is as incapable of definite application as if the term ‘oil and gas lease form’ had been used instead.””
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.