Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation v. Transportation Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he legislature intended the Act to apply if (but only if) an agreement pertains to a well.”
• “[T]he legislature intended the Act to apply if (but only if) an agreement pertains to a well.”
• “[I]t is the duty of the federal court to determine as best it can, what the highest court of the state would decide.”
• “[T]he threshold requirement for applicability of the statute is that the contract under scrutiny pertain to a well.”
• “[T]he threshold requirement for applicability of the statute is that the contract under scrutiny pertain to a well.”
• “[T]he primary basis of law for a civilian is legislation, and not (as in the common law) a great body of tradition in the form of prior decisions of the courts.” (quoting Albert Tate, Jr., Techniques of Judicial Interpretation in Louisiana, 22 La. L. Rev. 727 (1962))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).