Shell Oil Co. v. Dye’s Empirical Analysis
135 F.2d 365 · 1943
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2016
6 federal appellate · 4 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 Thompson v. Magnolia Petroleum Co. · Orthwein v. Thomas · Jilek v. Chicago, Wilmington & Franklin Coal Co. · Greer v. Carter Oil Co. · Bruner v. Hicks
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * there is no enumeration of particular minerals in the granting clause involved, from which the general term `and all other minerals' could draw its character. In other words, the naming of one particular object — coal — is not an enumeration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“should be construed to mean minerals of like kind as coal inasmuch as they possessed numerous characteristics in common. This court rejected the interpretation thus sought and in doing so stated, among other things, at page 368,”
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.