Shell Petroleum Corp. v. Grays’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Torrington Co. v. Stutzman (2001), Moore v. Dilworth (1944)
54 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.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appellant or plaintiff in error may not complain of errors which do not inju riously affect him, or which merely affect the rights of others.”
2 later decisions 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.