Shields v. Moffitt’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2019
4 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 Kassner v. Alexander Drug Co. · Gypsy Oil Co. v. Cover · Nicholson Corporation v. Ferguson · Hinds v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Ross v. Sanderson
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in Hinds v. Phillips Petroleum Company , 1979 OK 22 , ¶ 5, 591 P.2d 697 , as follows: The cluster of rights comprised within an instrument we refer to”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Restraints upon alienation where there are no provisions for forfeiture or reversion are 'disabling restraints' and void.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the hybrid offspring of an intermarriage between real and personal property, an offspring which is neither entirely real nor personal property, yet which bears distinguishing characteristics of both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.