Exxon Corp. v. Middleton’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Sun Oil Co. (Delaware) v. Madeley (1981), HECI Exploration Co. v. Neel (1999)
22 federal appellate · 61 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 Black Lake Pipe Line Co. v. Union Construction Co. · Fanny Fern Weymouth and Husband, C. E. Weymouth v. Colorado Interstate Gas Company, Colorado Interstate Gas Company v. Fanny Fern Weymouth and Husband, C. E. Weymouth · Texas Oil & Gas Corporation v. Vela · J. M. Huber Corporation v. William Harvey Denman and Jay Pumphrey, Trustees of the Estate of S. B. Burnett, Deceased · Custom Leasing, Inc. v. Texas Bank & Trust Co. of Dallas
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“comparable in time, quality, quantity, and availability of marketing outlets”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“The royalties to be paid by Lessee are: ... (b) on gas, including casinghead gas or other gaseous substance, produced from said land and sold or used off the premises or for the extraction of gasoline or other product therefrom, the market value at the well of one-eighth [12 l/2%] of the gas sold or used, provided that on gas sold at the wells the royalty shall be one-eighth of the amount realized from such sale....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Market value is defined as the price property would bring when it is offered for sale by one who desires, but is not obligated to sell, and is bought by one who is under no necessity of buying it. To determine the market value of gas, the gas should be valued as though it is free and available for sale.”
2 later decisions 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.