Dunlap v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 1956
5 federal appellate · 18 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 Geer v. State of Connecticut · Ohio Oil Company v. State of Indiana · Bender v. Brooks · Watford Oil & Gas Co. v. Shipman · Frank Oil Co. v. Belleview Gas & Oil 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Oil and gas in the earth are, unlike ore and coal, fugacious and incapable of ownership distinct from the land, and a grant of the oil and gas in a tract of land is a grant of that part of the oil and gas therein which the grantee may find and capture. No title vests until the oil or gas is reduced to possession by extracting the same -from the earth, and hence the lease is a grant of an incorporeal hereditament.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cuff v. Koslosky
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.