Eggert v. Wasatch Energy Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Stanley v. Lemire (2006), Martinez v. Media-Paymaster Plus/Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (2007)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 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 Beck v. Farmers Insurance Exchange · Romano v. U-Haul International · St. Benedict's Development Co. v. St. Benedict's Hospital · Resolution Trust Corp. v. Stone · Brehany v. Nordstrom, 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing inheres in every contract.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Under [the covenant], both parties to a contract impliedly promise not to intentionally do anything to injure the other party's right to receive the benefits of the contract'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“an implied duty that contracting parties refrain from actions that will intentionally destroy or injure the other party's right to receive the fruits of the contract.”
2 later decisions 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.