working interest
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 owner of the lease is said to own the 'working interest' because he has the right to develop and produce the minerals
How often courts cite the case defining “working interest”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “working interest” — 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.