Steel v. American Oil Development Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 1968 · most notably 147 W. Va. 484 - Cotiga Development Co. v. United Fuel Gas Co. (1962), Myers v. Shell Petroleum Corp. (1941)
3 federal appellate · 30 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 Heller v. Dailey · Grass v. Big Creek Development Co. · 73 W. Va. 215 - Jennings v. Southern Carbon Co. · Hall v. South Penn Oil Co. · Moore v. Heat & Light Co.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ 'Among such circumstances and conditions are the situation of the parties; the character of the mineral products; the nature of the oil-bearing sand, whether dense or soft and porous; developments on contiguous lands, whether by same or different operators; cost of drilling; proximity to market, and facilities for marketing; current prices, whether high or low; location of the lands, and such other conditions attendant upon the operations as may explain necessity for prompt, or excuse for delayed, action in prosecuting such developments.’ ” (p. 215.)”
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.