Daigle v. Shell Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
14 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably O'Connor v. Boeing North American, Inc. (1998), Cook v. Rockwell International Corp. (1993)
14 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 42 U.S.C. § 9601 (§ 101 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980) · 42 U.S.C. § 9613 (§ 113 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980)
Relies on Bratton v. United States · Eaton v. Hobson · Esplin v. Hirschi · Sterling v. Velsicol Chemical Corp. · Simer v. Rios
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court faced with a certification issue must be mindful that certification is conditional and that once a class is certified it may be altered, expanded, or subdivided, or the certification may be vacated, as the case progresses toward resolution on the merits. . . . Because class certification is subject to later modification, a court should err in favor of, not against allowing maintenance of the class action.”
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.