Gillette v. Pepper Tank Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2017
11 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 Page v. Clark · Sauder v. Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. · Phillips Petroleum Company v. Heber A. Peterson and Astrid N. D. Peterson, Phillips Petroleum Company v. John H. Haslem and Rebecca H. Haslem · 35 Colo. App. 6 - Dulin v. West · Buchanan v. Sinclair Oil & Gas Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendant insists that the lease should not be forfeited or cancelled for failure to perform covenants or stipulations until it had been judicially determined that such a failure existed, and that thereafter defendant should be given a reasonable time to comply with such stipulations. The default, as determined by the trial court, was a failure to perform an express covenant to pay money. We are of the opinion that defendant’s contention in this regard is without merit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oil v. Riemer“the work of exploration, development, and production should proceed with reasonable diligence for the common benefit of the parties, or the premises be surrendered to the lessor.... [Reasonable diligence is, 'whatever, in the circumstances, would be reasonably expected of all operators of ordinary prudence, having regard to the interests of both lessor and lessee.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Bontrager“is founded upon the concept that in the secondary term of an oil and gas lease: “[t]he work of exploration, development, and production should proceed with reasonable diligence for the common benefit of the parties, or the premises be surrendered to the lessor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Cramer
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.