Union Producing Co. v. Pardue’s Empirical Analysis
117 F.2d 225 · 1941
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1986
14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Board of Com'rs of Caddo Levee Dist. v. Pure Oil Co. · Wall v. United Gas Public Service Co. · Arkansas Natural Gas Co. v. Sartor · Wilkins v. Nelson · Sartor v. United Gas Public Service Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It was the duty of appellant and its predecessors under the leases in question, to pay appellee each month for the gas it had bought from him in the previous month. The performance of this duty and the receipt by appellee of the cheek, could not of itself raise an estoppel against appellee, constitute a settlement, or be the basis of any claim of accord and satisfaction. Nor would the fact that appellant was dissatisfied with the price and grumbled about it, at all change the situation. In order for there to have been an estoppel, appellee must have acted in such a way as to mislead appellant to its detriment, whereas all that appellee did here was to receive the moneys appellant felt bound to tender. In order for there to have been an accord and satisfaction or a settlement for less than was appellee’s due, there must have been a real dispute and that dispute must have gone to the point of a recognized active controversy and a settlement of that cont?'oversy on terms understood and accepted by the parties to it as such a settlement. * * * ” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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