Hunter v. Shell Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
198 F.2d 485 · 1952
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Federal Trade Commission v. Texaco, Inc. Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Oil Company. Federal Trade Commission v. The Superior Oil Company, Inc., a Corporation. Federal Trade Commission v. Exxon Corporation, a Corporation. Federal Trade Commission v. Shell Oil Company, a Corporation. Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Oil Company of California, a Corporation. Federal Trade Commission v. Mobil Oil Corporation, a Corporation (1977), Cora Pub, Inc. v. Continental Casualty Co. (1980)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Christie v. Callahan · Texas & New Orleans Railroad v. Burden · Trice v. Comstock · Reynolds v. Whitin Mach. Works · Wager v. Hall
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an inferred fact may not be used as a basis for a further inference thereby extending a chain of inferences into the realm of pure conjecture,”
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.