offset wells
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 310 U.S. 573 - Railroad Commission of Texas v. Rowan & Nichols Oil Co. · 1940Most cited · 339 citing opinions
the drilling of 'offset wells' at the boundary of each surface tract, so that owners may protect themselves against the exercise of one another's capture rights
How often courts cite the case defining “offset wells”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “offset wells” — 339 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.