Dieckman v. Regency GP LP, Regency GP LLC’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dunlap v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. · Nemec v. Shrader · Continental Insurance v. Rutledge & Co. · Katz v. Oak Industries Inc. · 34 Del. Ch. 427 - Danby v. Osteopathic Hospital Ass'n of Delaware
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he implied covenant is well-suited to imply contractual terms that are so obvious-like a requirement that the general partner not engage in misleading or deceptive conduct to obtain safe harbor approvals-that the drafter would not have needed to include the conditions as express terms in the agreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as applying the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing in its contractual sense and holding that intentional misrepresentations violated the implied covenant,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[o]ur use of the implied covenant is based on the words of the contract and not the disclaimed fiduciary duties.”
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.