Beer v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably ABM Farms, Inc. v. Woods (1998), 148 Ohio App. 3d 596 - Diamond Wine & Spirits, Inc. v. Dayton Heidelberg Distributing Co. (2002)
5 federal appellate · 69 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 41 Ohio App. 2d 118 - Klott v. Associates Real Estate · 56 Ohio App. 2d 83 - Schwartz v. Capital Savings & Loan Co. · 68 Ohio St. 488 - Coffinberry v. Sun Oil 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“forfeiture of lessee's interest is warranted in order to assure the development of the land and the protection of lessor's interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]bsent an express provision to the contrary, [a mineral] lease includes an implied covenant to reasonably develop the land.”
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.