Berry v. Shell Petroleum Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “We consider that the water supply of the people is of greater importance than the operation of a business at a reduced cost.”
• oil company stricdy Hable for salt water escaping from refinery operation, citing Rylands and Gilmore
• salt water from defendant’s oil well seeped into plaintiff s water supply
• salt water damage to land

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

22 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Frazier v. Cities Service Oil Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1945-04-07· cited 77×
• In Re Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether Products Liability Litigation
  S.D. New York· 2005-04-20· cited 64×
• Williams v. Amoco Production Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1987-03-27· cited 52×
• Jeakins v. City of El Dorado
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1936-01-25· cited 35×
• Donley v. Amerada Petroleum Corp.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1940-11-09· cited 32×
• Atkinson v. Herington Cattle Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1968-01-27· cited 27×
• Klassen v. Central Kansas Cooperative Creamery Ass'n
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1946-01-26· cited 23×
• Lehmkuhl v. City of Junction City
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1956-04-07· cited 20×
• Miller v. Cudahy Co.
  D. Kansas· 1983-06-21· cited 18×
• City of Neodesha v. BP Corp. North America
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2012-08-31· cited 17×
• Young v. Darter
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1961-06-06· cited 16×
• Long v. Turk
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1998-08-19· cited 16×
• State Highway Commission v. Empire Oil & Refining Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1935-01-26· cited 13×
• John T. Arnold Associates, Inc. v. City of Wichita
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1980-08-22· cited 12×
• Lee v. Mobil Oil Corporation
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1969-04-12· cited 10×
• Fulmer v. Skelly Oil Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1936-01-25· cited 10×
• Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Ford
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-02-09· cited 6×
• Koger v. Ferrin
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1996-11-15· cited 4×
• Wendtlandt v. National Cooperative Refining Ass'n
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1950-02-28· cited 4×
• Maxedon v. Texaco Producing, Inc.
  D. Kansas· 1989-04-20· cited 4×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Helms v. Eastern Kansas Oil Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1917-12-08· cited 35×
• Stotler v. Rochelle
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1910-07-09· cited 30×
• Gilmore v. Royal Salt Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1911-05-06· cited 17×
• Marts v. Freeman
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1913-12-06· cited 11×
• Hall v. Galey
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1928-11-03· cited 10×
• State v. Lebow
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1929-10-05· cited 9×

Other cases named Berry v. Shell Petroleum Co.

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Berry v. Shell Petroleum Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1935-01-26· cited 5×