Corbett v. La Bere’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2024
2 federal appellate · 16 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 3 Cal. 2d 110 - Callahan v. Martin · Dabney-Johnston Oil Corp. v. Walden · Denver Joint Stock Land Bank of Denver v. Dixon · Lathrop v. Eyestone · Palmer v. Crews
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 47-09-11, N.D.C.C., provides: Grants shall be interpreted in like manner with contracts in general except so far as is otherwise provided by this chapter. If the operative words of a grant are doubtful, recourse may be had to its recitals to assist the construction, and if several parts of a grant are absolutely irreconcilable, the former part shall prevail. A clear and distinct limitation in a grant is not controlled by other words less clear and distinct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knox v. Krueger“An examination of the assignment of royalty at once discloses that the operative words of that instrument which constitute the granting clause are clear and purport to convey to the Middlewest Investment Company, Inc. one per cent of all the gas and oil produced and saved from the lands therein described.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knox v. Krueger““The lease * * * was for a period of ten years or as long as the lessee produced oil and gas, or either of them. It conveyed to the lessee an interest which under such leases is generally known as a working interest. It is an interest in real property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barnett v. Hagans
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.