Continental Oil Co. v. Oil Conservation Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably Llano, Inc. v. Southern Union Gas Company (1964), Santa Fe Exploration Co. v. Oil Conservation Commission (1992)
2 federal appellate · 84 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 Opp Cotton Mills, Inc. v. Administrator of the Wage & Hour Division of the Department of Labor · City of Yonkers v. United States · Fire Department v. City of Fort Worth · O'Meara v. Union Oil Co. of California · California Co. v. State Oil & Gas Board
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Therefore, the commission, by ‘basic conclusions of fact’ (or what might be termed ‘findings’), must determine, insofar as practicable, (1) the amount of recoverable gas under each producer’s tract; (2) the total amount of recoverable gas in the pool; (3) the proportion that (1) bears to (2) ; and (4) what portion of the arrived at proportion can be recovered without waste. * * * "”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * For the same reason, it must follow that, just as the commission cannot perform a judicial function, neither can the court perform an administrative one. . [Citing cases] This is the net effect of the admission and consideration by the trial court of the additional evidence in this case. Such a procedure inevitably leads to the substitution of the court’s discretion for that of the expert administrative body. We do not believe that such procedure is valid constitutionally. * * * ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““(70) That production from the Morrow formation in the subject pool is 1 from many separate stringers which vary greatly in porosity, water saturation, and thickness, both within individual stringers and between stringers. “(71) That the above-described stringers are not continuous across the pool, but are interconnected by the perforations in the various completions in the pool. “(72) That due to the above-described variations in the stringers and the lack of continuity of the stringers, the effective feet of pay, porosity of the pay, and water saturation of pay underlying each developed tract cannot be practically determined from the data obtained at the wellbore. “(73) That there are recoverable gas reserves underlying each of the developed 320 acre tracts within the horizontal limits of the subject pool; that there are 15 developed 320-acre tracts in the pool as defined by the Commission. “(74) That due to the nature of the reservoir the amount of recoverable gas under each producer’s tract cannot be practically determined in the subject pool by a formula which considers effective feet of pay, porosity, and water saturation. “(75) That due to the nature of the reservoir the amount of recoverable gas under each producer’s tract cannot be practically determined in the subject pool by a formula which considers only the deliverability of a well. “(76) That the amount of gas that can be practicably obtained without waste by the owner of each property in the subject pool substa”
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.