Shell Petroleum Corp. v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
100 F.2d 778 · 1939
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 1981
6 federal appellate · 17 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 Hamilton v. Empire Gas & Fuel Co. · Curdy v. Stafford · Marks v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Barker v. Lashbrook · Paine v. Consumers' Forwarding & Storage 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The evils resulting from the retention in remote dedicators- of the fee in gores and strips, which for many years are valueless because of the public easement in them, and which then become valuable by reason of an abandonment of the public use, have led courts to strained constructions to include the fee of such gores and strips in deeds of the abutting lots. And modern decisions are even more radical in this regard than the older cases.” (p. 632.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * .00 acres of land which includes the land in question, and then provides `save and except therefrom 5.6 acres taken up by the rights of way of the Neches Canal Company's lateral, making 156.4 acres herein and hereby conveyed.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“... have granted, sold and conveyed, and by these presents do grant, sell and convey unto the said (Gregory) all that certain tract or parcel of land situated in Jefferson County, State of Texas, and being a part of the Alexander Horton one-fourth league survey, described as follows ... containing 162.00 acres of land save and except therefrom 5.6 acres taken up by the rights of way of the Neches Canal Company lateral, making 156.4 acres herein and hereby conveyed.”
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.