Davis v. Devon Energy Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 12 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably State v. Mendez (2010), 27 F. Supp. 3d 1188 - Anderson Living Trust v. WPX Energy Production, LLC (2014)
6 federal appellate · 12 district · 36 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 Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Allison v. Citgo Petroleum Corp. · Miller v. Mackey International, Inc. · Mark V, Inc. v. Mellekas · Continental Potash, Inc. v. Freeport-McMoran, Inc.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen it is clear ... from the relevant parts of the contract taken together and considered with the facts and circumstances surrounding the execution of the agreement, that the obligation in question was within the contemplation of the parties or was necessary to effect their intention, then such obligation may be implied and enforced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]e do not address the existence of the marketable condition rule in New Mexico .... [N]othing in this opinion should be construed as either the recognition or disapproval of the marketable condition rule, its scope, or its applicability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The general rule is that an implied covenant cannot co-exist with express covenants that specifically cover the same subject matter”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.