Jones v. Killingsworth

How courts have described this case

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

• “The lessors’ land may be pooled only to the extent stipulated in the lease.”
• Railroad Commission rules cannot extend restrictive terms of lease
• “The fact that the [Commission] may Permit a much larger unit cannot be read into the lease contract when, as here, the authority to create larger units is expressly limited to units of the size Prescribed by the [Commission].”
• \The Railroad Commission has no power to determine property rights.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Southeastern Pipe Line Co., Inc. v. Tichacek
  Texas Supreme Court· 1999-09-09· cited 198×
• Railroad Commission of Texas v. City of Austin
  Texas Supreme Court· 1975-05-28· cited 80×
• Amarillo Oil Co. v. Energy-Agri Products, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1990-06-27· cited 77×
• Browning Oil Co., Inc. v. Luecke
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-11-09· cited 71×
• Duncan Land & Exploration, Inc. v. Littlepage
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1999-02-11· cited 64×
• Texas Rice Land Partners, Ltd. and Mike Latta v. Denbury Green Pipeline-Texas, Llc
  Texas Supreme Court· 2012-03-02· cited 47×
• Samano v. Sun Oil Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1981-09-16· cited 45×
• Mulvey v. Mobil Producing Texas and New Mexico Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2004-09-24· cited 43×
• Edwin M. Jones Oil Co. v. Pend Oreille Oil & Gas Co.
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1990-08-31· cited 43×
• Reo Industries, Inc. v. Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-06-03· cited 40×
• Union Gas Corp. v. Gisler
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2003-08-29· cited 30×
• David Ohrt, Sandra Hester, and Judy Sinast v. Union Gas Corporation
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2012-08-30· cited 25×
• Dorchester Gas Producing Co. v. Harlow Corp.
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1987-07-23· cited 24×
• Estate of Grimes v. Dorchester Gas Producing Co.
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1986-02-27· cited 24×
• Samson Lone Star, Ltd. Partnership v. Hooks
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2012-05-31· cited 22×
• Hunt Oil Co. v. Moore
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-08-04· cited 19×
• Pierce v. Benefit Trust Life Insurance Co.
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1990-02-20· cited 18×
• Westbrook v. Atlantic Richfield Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1973-11-28· cited 18×
• Yelderman v. McCarthy
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1971-12-02· cited 17×
• Expando Production Company v. Marshall
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1966-09-16· cited 17×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Railroad Commission
  Texas Supreme Court· 1943-03-31· cited 74×
• Gulf Oil Corp. v. Marathon Oil Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1941-04-30· cited 66×
• Ryan Consolidated Petroleum Corp. v. Pickens
  Texas Supreme Court· 1955-11-23· cited 49×
• Phillips Petroleum Company v. Heber A. Peterson and Astrid N. D. Peterson, Phillips Petroleum Company v. John H. Haslem and Rebecca H. Haslem
  Tenth Circuit· 1954-12-21· cited 36×
• Tiller v. Fields
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1957-02-28· cited 34×
• Texaco, Inc. v. Lettermann
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1961-02-06· cited 34×
• Nale v. Carroll
  Texas Supreme Court· 1956-04-18· cited 26×
• Pickens v. Railroad Commission
  Texas Supreme Court· 1965-02-10· cited 18×
• Jones v. Killingsworth
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1964-05-07· cited 9×

Other cases named Jones v. Killingsworth

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Jones v. Killingsworth
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1964-05-07· cited 9×