Russell v. Texas Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting the “abundant authority” that owner of mineral rights is entitled to take the amount of water necessary for the exploitation of the minerals
• “It is a well established principle of property law that the right to use the surface of land as an incident of the ownership of mineral rights in the land, does not carry with it the right to use the surface in aid of mining or drilling operations on other lands.”

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Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• United States v. Ruby Company, a Utah Corporation
  Ninth Circuit· 1978-12-29· cited 130×
• Santiago v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
  Ninth Circuit· 1975-10-31· cited 117×
• California Pacific Bank, a California Banking Corporation v. Small Business Administration, an Agency of the United States Government
  Ninth Circuit· 1977-07-13· cited 76×
• Lena Robinson v. Diamond Housing Corporation
  D.C. Circuit· 1972-04-03· cited 53×
• Sollenbarger v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.
  D. New Mexico· 1988-08-15· cited 34×
• EOG Resources, Inc. v. Lucky Land Management, LLC
  Sixth Circuit· 2025-04-14· cited 30×
• Beech Aircraft Corp. v. Flexible Tubing Corp.
  D. Connecticut· 1967-05-17· cited 26×
• Allison v. State
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1966-11-17· cited 16×
• Russell v. Union Oil Co.
  California Court of Appeal· 1970-04-29· cited 10×
• EQT Production Company v. Margot Beth Crowder
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2019-06-05· cited 8×
• United States v. 5.61 Acres of Land, more or less, situate in the County of El Dorado
  N.D. California· 1957-03-01· cited 5×
• Unnamed case
  Ninth Circuit· 1957-01-21· cited 2×
• Joseph L. Portwood and Betty Portwood, Individuals, Trading and Doing Business as the Portwood Company v. The Federal Trade Commission
  Tenth Circuit· 1969-11-14· cited 2×

Cites

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

• Greene v. White
  Texas Supreme Court· 1941-02-26· cited 164×
• Oregon & California Railroad v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1915-06-21· cited 49×
• United States v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.
  Supreme Court· 1940-12-16· cited 45×
• McCaughn v. Real Estate Land Title & Trust Co.
  Supreme Court· 1936-03-30· cited 43×
• Stradley v. Magnolia Petroleum Co.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1941-09-29· cited 32×
• Washington Water Power Co. v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1943-04-30· cited 28×
• Wier v. Texas Co. Ludeau v. Texas Co. Vidrine v. Texas Co
  Fifth Circuit· 1950-05-05· cited 21×
• Workman v. Lewis
  Ninth Circuit· 1932-11-03· cited 21×
• Williams v. Baker
  Supreme Court· 1873-02-10· cited 17×
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation v. Fear
  Ninth Circuit· 1939-06-06· cited 15×
• Inland Power & Light Co. v. Grieger
  Ninth Circuit· 1937-07-16· cited 15×
• Continental Land Co. v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1937-02-15· cited 15×
• Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp. v. Penick & Ford, Ltd.
  Eighth Circuit· 1939-03-22· cited 11×
• Larsen v. Portland California S. S. Co.
  Ninth Circuit· 1933-07-24· cited 8×
• Dillon Investment Co. v. Kinikin
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1952-03-08· cited 7×
• Sherman v. Associated Telephone Co.
  California Court of Appeal· 1950-12-06· cited 6×
• Hinton v. Staunton
  Montana Supreme Court· 1951-02-14· cited 5×
• Panama Mail S. S. Co. v. Vargas
  Ninth Circuit· 1929-07-15· cited 5×
• Moodey v. Dale Consol. Mines
  Ninth Circuit· 1936-02-10· cited 3×
• United States v. Union Trust Co.
  Seventh Circuit· 1937-06-30· cited 3×

Other cases named Russell v. Texas Co.

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Russell v. Texas Co.
  Supreme Court· 1957-06-24· cited 1×