marginal 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
wells which, if their low productive capacity were legally curtailed, would have to be prematurely abandoned
How often courts cite the case defining “marginal wells”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “marginal 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.