Amoco Production Co. v. Ware’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2016
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Poindexter v. Lion Oil Refining Co. · Saulsberry v. Siegel
Most-quoted passages
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“An implied covenant is one that may be reasonably inferred from the whole agreement and the circumstances attending its execution. They are not favored by the law and can be justified only upon the ground of legal necessity arising from the terms of the contract and the circumstances attending its execution. 20 Am. Jur.2d, Covenants, § 12. According to a leading authority in the field of oil and gas law, there are essentially five types of implied covenants in oil and gas leases: A covenant to drill wells within a reasonable time, testing the land for oil and gas; a covenant to drill test wells within a reasonable time after notice; a covenant, if oil or gas be found in paying quantities, to proceed with reasonable diligence in drilling sufficient number of wells to reasonably develop the premises; a covenant to protect the land from drainage through wells on adjoining lands, by drilling offset wells; and, a covenant to market the produce of producing wells. Summers, The Law of Oil and Gas, ch. 13, § 395 (Vol. 2, 1959).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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