oil payment
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 356 U.S. 260 - Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. P G Lake · 1958Most cited · 1,055 citing opinions
the right to a specified sum of money, payable out of a specified percentage of the oil, or the proceeds received from the sale of such oil, if, as and when produced
How often courts cite the case defining “oil payment”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “oil payment” — 1,052 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.