Luckel v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Anadarko Petroleum Corp. v. Thompson (2003), Hitzelberger v. Samedan Oil Corp. (1997)
2 federal appellate · 118 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston))
Relationships
Relies on Stephens County v. Mid-Kansas Oil & Gas Co. · Sun Oil Co. (Delaware) v. Madeley · Sheffield v. Hogg · Woods v. Sims · Benge v. Scharbauer
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ascertain the intent of the parties from all of the language within the four corners of the deed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'as a fixed fraction of total production' (fractional royalty interest) or 'as a fraction of the total royalty interest' (fraction of royalty interest).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“if different parts of the deed appear contradictory or inconsistent, the court must strive to harmonize all of the parts....”
2 later decisions 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.