Chevron Oil Co. v. E. D. Walton Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
517 F.2d 1119 · 1975
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably Theriot v. Bay Drilling Corp. (1986), Richland Plantation Company v. Justiss-Mears Oil Company Inc (1982)
17 federal appellate · 2 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 Mitchell's, Inc. v. Friedman · Spence & Howe Construction Co. v. Gulf Oil Corp. · Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. v. Commercial Standard Insurance Co. · Ohio Oil Company v. Smith · Joe Adams & Son v. McCann Construction Company
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Contractor agrees to ... indemnify and hold Company ... harmless ... against all loss, ... including without limitation and irrespective of negligence, all claims for injury to or death of persons, loss of or damage to property, and claims of workmen and materialmen,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As drafter of the contract, Chevron could have provided a clear indication that the parties intended the result it argues for now. Where there is an ambiguity creating at least two reasonable constructions, that construction will prevail which is least favorable to the party who prepared the instrument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“agreements in which one person clearly undertakes to indemnify another against liability for injuries or damages caused by defects in certain premises or resulting from the maintenance or operation of a specified instrumentality.”
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.