Griffith v. Taylor

How courts have described this case

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

• refusing to construe a lease provision in a manner that would change the established oil and gas industry-specific meaning of royalty and thereby “defeat the rights” of another with an interest in the same mineral estate
• defining “rental” as “the consideration for the privilege of delaying drilling operations”
• reservation of a “one-sixteenth (1/16) part of the minerals produced and saved or an equal one-sixteenth” was a reservation of a royalty interest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Kelly v. Zamarello
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1971-07-06· cited 211×
• McMahon v. Christmann
  Texas Supreme Court· 1957-05-29· cited 118×
• BP America Production Co. v. Zaffirini
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2013-08-30· cited 49×
• Martin v. Glass
  N.D. Texas· 1983-08-16· cited 47×
• Baxley v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1998-05-15· cited 41×
• Chesapeake Appalachia v. Cecil L. HIckman, etc.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2015-11-18· cited 35×
• Brannon v. Gulf States Energy Corp.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1977-12-30· cited 34×
• Portwood v. Buckalew
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1975-03-27· cited 31×
• Minchen v. Fields
  Texas Supreme Court· 1961-01-11· cited 28×
• Lyle v. Jane Guinn Revocable Trust
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2010-03-11· cited 28×
• Luecke v. Wallace
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1997-09-25· cited 25×
• Alamo National Bank of San Antonio v. Hurd
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1972-09-13· cited 24×
• Helms v. Guthrie
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1978-10-19· cited 20×
• Tiller v. Tiller
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-06· cited 16×
• Destec Properties Ltd. Partnership v. Freestone Central Appraisal District
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1999-08-31· cited 10×
• NEWPORT OIL COMPANY v. Lamb
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1962-01-05· cited 9×
• Griffin v. Collins
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1958-02-10· cited 9×
• Minchen v. Fields
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1959-12-10· cited 8×
• Whitehall Oil Company v. Eckart
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1967-06-09· cited 8×
• Lane v. Elkins
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1969-04-25· cited 8×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Morriss v. First Nat. Bank of Mission
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1952-03-26· cited 56×
• Patterson v. Texas Co.
  Fifth Circuit· 1942-12-07· cited 19×
• Griffith v. Taylor
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1955-11-21· cited 1×

Other cases named Griffith v. Taylor

3 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Griffith v. Taylor
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1997-04-18· cited 16×
• Griffith v. Taylor
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2000-11-17· cited 6×
• Griffith v. Taylor
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1955-11-21· cited 1×