Commonwealth v. Shell Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2017
16 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 Amos v. Gunn · Roberts v. City of Baton Rouge · Ramaley v. City of St. Paul · 130 W. Va. 224 - Shulick-Taylor Co. v. City of Wheeling · State v. Silver Bow Refining Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“confer[s] a right to do something which otherwise one would not have the right to do; it is a prerequisite to the right to ... do certain acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. MacDougall v. Levick
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.