Diamond Shamrock Corp. v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
August 1990
most recently cited
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Gibson v. Pickett · Bradley v. Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. · Schulte v. Benton Savings & Loan Ass'n · Tisdale v. Gunter · Criner v. Ritchie
Most-quoted passages
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“The Arkansas Supreme Court held that if Diamond Shamrock was relying on the pricing standard found in the 1971 gas purchase agreement with Arkla Inc., then this price should be clearly referred to in the lease agreement royalty clause. To hold otherwise would place Harris in the unfair position of being compensated for the gas produced from his property by a contract to which he was not a party nor had any notice of when negotiating his lease with Diamond Shamrock.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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