Darr v. Eldridge’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Continental Potash, Inc. v. Freeport-McMoran, Inc. (1993), Elliott Industries Limited Partnership v. Bp America Production Company Bp J (2005)
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 24 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 Freeport Sulphur Co. v. American Sulphur Royalty Co. · Libby v. De Baca · Owensby v. Nesbitt · Wolfe v. Texas Co. · Shultz v. Ramey
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“implied covenant to make diligent efforts to market the production in order that the lessor may realize on this royalty interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“equity demands that the covenant to market be implied in oil and gas leases”
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.