Western Oil Fields, Inc. v. Pennzoil United, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
421 F.2d 387 · 1970
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Kimbell Foods, Inc. v. Republic National Bank (1977), House of Koscot Development Corp. v. American Line Cosmetics, Inc. (1972)
16 federal appellate · 9 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 Hol-Gar Manufacturing Corp. v. United States · Woods v. Sims · Luling Oil & Gas Co. v. Humble Oil & Refining Co. · McMahon v. Christmann · Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Johnson
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] court will give effect to all provisions of a contract and will harmonize the various provisions unless they are 'necessarily repugnant.' " W. Oil Fields, Inc. v. Pennzoil United, Inc. , 421 F.2d 387 , 389 (5th Cir. 1970) (citations omitted). The broad phrases "recovery of rent”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where a contract provides for monthly payments and not a present sale of gas or oil, a cause of action accrues when any given monthly payment is due. Only those payments due more than four years before the suit was filed are barred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.