Sun Operating Ltd. Partnership v. Holt

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that oil and gas lease required production to resume within sixty days of cessation rather than within a reasonable time because the lease provided that it terminated if production ceased for more than sixty consecutive days
• stating that an appellate court is “not at liberty to rewrite the contract or interpret it in a manner which the parties never intended”
• holding that oil and gas lease required production to resume within sixty days of cessation rather than within a reasonable time because the lease provided that it terminated if production ceased for more than sixty consecutive days
• stating that 24 an appellate court is ―not at liberty to rewrite the contract or interpret it in a manner which the parties never intended‖
• noting that the clause’s “scope and application, for the most part, is utterly dependent upon the terms of the contract in which it appears”
• stating that an appellate court is “not at liberty to rewrite the contract or interpret it in a manner which the parties never intended”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

81 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Cross Timbers Oil Co. v. Exxon Corp.
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2000-05-01· cited 142×
• Natural Gas Clearinghouse v. Midgard Energy Co.
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2003-07-21· cited 75×
• Tribble & Stephens Co. v. RGM Constructors, L.P.
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2005-02-10· cited 54×
• Zurich American Insurance Co. v. Hunt Petroleum (AEC), Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2004-11-24· cited 52×
• Moore v. Jet Stream Investments, Ltd.
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2008-08-08· cited 51×
• Clark v. Cotten Schmidt, L.L.P.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2010-10-07· cited 46×
• Winfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2002-12-24· cited 41×
• Walter R. Beardslee v. Inflection Energy, LLC
  New York Court of Appeals· 2015-03-31· cited 31×
• Allegiance Hillview, L.P. v. Range Texas Production, LLC
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2011-07-28· cited 29×
• Petro Pro, Ltd. v. Upland Resources, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2007-06-14· cited 26×
• Railroad Commission of Texas v. Coppock
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2007-02-01· cited 23×
• Fasken Land & Minerals, Ltd. v. Occidental Permian Ltd.
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2005-06-30· cited 23×
• Golden Spread Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Denver City Energy Associates, L.P.
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2008-12-02· cited 19×
• TEC Olmos, LLC v. ConocoPhillips Co.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-05-31· cited 17×
• Sabre Oil & Gas Corp. v. Gibson
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2002-03-28· cited 15×
• Wiser v. Enervest Operating, L.L.C.
  N.D. New York· 2011-03-22· cited 11×
• Charron v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2008-06-17· cited 9×
• Chesapeake Operating, Inc. v. Denson
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2006-10-09· cited 8×
• Wolf Hollow I, L.P. v. El Paso Marketing, L.P. and Enterprise Texas Pipeline, LLC
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-08-15· cited 8×
• R & B FALCON CORP. v. American Exploration Co.
  S.D. Texas· 2001-01-26· cited 6×

Cites

31 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Coker v. Coker
  Texas Supreme Court· 1983-05-04· cited 2,505×
• Heritage Resources, Inc. v. NationsBank
  Texas Supreme Court· 1997-03-21· cited 892×
• Raw Hide Oil & Gas, Inc. v. Maxus Exploration Co.
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1988-12-31· cited 329×
• Amoco Production Co. v. Alexander
  Texas Supreme Court· 1981-09-28· cited 246×
• Rogers v. Ricane Enterprises, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1994-11-03· cited 184×
• Frazier v. Wynn
  Texas Supreme Court· 1971-10-06· cited 120×
• Herschbach v. City of Corpus Christi
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1994-10-06· cited 103×
• Hydrocarbon Management, Inc. v. Tracker Exploration, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1993-09-15· cited 82×
• Gulf Oil Corporation v. Southland Royalty Company
  Texas Supreme Court· 1973-05-30· cited 49×
• Samano v. Sun Oil Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1981-09-16· cited 45×
• Judice v. Mewbourne Oil Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1996-04-25· cited 39×
• Midwest Oil Corporation v. Winsauer
  Texas Supreme Court· 1959-04-15· cited 38×
• Stanolind Oil & Gas Co. v. Newman Brothers Drill. Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1957-06-19· cited 37×
• United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-08-18· cited 36×
• Irene Perlman, as Substitute for William Perlman v. Pioneer Limited Partnership and Kendrick Cattle Company
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-01-23· cited 36×
• Cabot Corp. v. Brown
  Texas Supreme Court· 1987-12-09· cited 36×
• Frost National Bank v. Matthews
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-06-03· cited 26×
• Gulf Oil Corp. v. Southland Royalty Co.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1972-03-15· cited 25×
• Kincaid v. Gulf Oil Corp.
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1984-06-20· cited 22×
• Skelly Oil Company v. Harris
  Texas Supreme Court· 1962-01-03· cited 21×