Shell Pipe Line Corp. v. Woolfolk’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently April 1993 · most notably Texas Power & Light Company v. Cole (1958), KAMO Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Baker (1956)
46 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 St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Clark · St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Railroad v. Knapp-Stout & Co. · Prairie Pipe Line Co. v. Shipp · St. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern Railroad v. St. Louis Union Stock Yards Co. · City of Cape Girardeau v. Hunze
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the condemning company proposes to reserve to the landowner some right or easement not reserved by the statute itself, the reservation should be made in the original or by an amended petition. In other words, the petition should * [specially] set forth what the company proposes to take. The easement reserved to the landowner should be specifically defined and located, so that the rights of the parties may be then and thereafter protected. If the proposed reservation is not specifically stated and defined, the court can sustain a motion to make the petition more specific and definite in this respect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.