Adams v. Shell Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2012
2 federal appellate · 1 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 Pacific Mutual Life Insurance v. Haslip · Mississippi v. Turner · Jenkins v. Raymark Industries, Inc. · Roginsky v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc. · Fibreboard Corporation Pittsburgh Corning Corporation Acands Inc
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]leadings, discovery, and strict application of rules of evidence associated with normal adjudication processes for individual lawsuits are often replaced with greatly simplified, informal procedures, often summary in nature....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“traditional trial procedures, methods of proof, and evidentiary rules will be abbreviated and simplified to shorten trial time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the Court will select the remaining number of names, for a total of twenty names.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.