Poplar Creek Development Co. v. Chesapeake Appalachia, L.L.C.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that Kentucky follows the at-the-well rule
• making an Erie guess that Kentucky would adopt the “at the well” rule as its default calculation method for oil and gas royalties
• “The likelihood of success, in turn, provides a gauge from which the benefits of the settlement must be measured.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “Kentucky follows the ‘at-the-well’ rule, which allows for the deduction of post-production costs prior to paying appropriate royalties.”
• “Kentucky follows the ‘at-the-well’ rule, which allows for the deduction of post-production costs prior to paying appropriate royalties.”
• “A federal court sitting in diversity must apply the law of the highest state court if that court has ruled on the matter in dispute; otherwise, the court may rely on case law from lower state courts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).