Johnson v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2016
4 district · 8 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 Harris v. Currie · Terry v. Humphreys · Jilek v. Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal Co. · Thomas v. Southwestern Settlement & Development Co. · Duvall v. Stone
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think it is clear that a conveyance or reservation of a fractional interest in the minerals by the owner of a fee simple estate will only effect a severance of the fractional interest so conveyed or reserved. Dixon v. Henderson, 267 S.W.2d 869 (Tex.Civ.App.); Thomas v. Southwestern Settlement & Develop. Co., 132 Tex. 413 , 123 S.W.2d 290, 291, 300 ; Henderson v. Chesley, [ 229 S.W. 573 (Tex.Civ.App.)] supra. And, see Gulf Refining Co. v. Orr, 207 La. 915 , 22 So.2d 269 , and discussion notes 1 Oil & Gas Reporter 447, 449, by the editors of Southwestern Legal Foundation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fadem v. Kimball
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.