Walsh v. Kansas Fuel Co.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““That the right to subjacent support to the surface will not be deemed to have been waived, conveyed by or lost to the owner of the surface unless such clearly appears, from the language used in the conveyance, to have been the intention of the parties is sustained by numerous authorities, among which are the following cases: [Citing a number of cases.] “The contract in this case is not ambiguous in the usual sense. The only question is the legal effect of the language used therein, and, as we have seen, it does not clearly appear that the right to subjacent support of the surface was intended to be waived or conveyed by appellant.” (p. 313.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Audo v. Western Coal & Mining Co.

2. ““Said second party to work and mine said coal in a good, careful, and workmanlike manner, and not leave unnecessarily any coal which should be and can be mined with safety to the mine and' miner, and said second party shall not be required to work low places or rolls which cannot be mined except at a loss.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Walsh v. Kansas Fuel Co.

3. ““The contract in this ease is not ambiguous in the usual sense.” (p. 313.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Walsh v. Kansas Fuel Co.