Davis v. Cramer’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2021
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Brewster v. Lanyon Zinc Co. · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Reid · Cole Petroleum Co. v. United States Gas & Oil Co. · Libby v. De Baca · McVicker v. Horn, Robinson & Nathan
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Colorado we have recognized four implied covenants in oil and gas leases: to drill; to develop after discovery of oil and gas in paying quantities; to operate diligently and prudently; and to protect leased premises against drainage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Embodied in the covenant to operate diligently and prudently is the implied covenant to market.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fundamental purpose of an oil and gas lease is to provide for the exploration, development, production, and operation of the property for the mutual benefit of the lessor and lessee.”
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.