408 So. 2d 1341 - Pendleton v. Shell Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably 600 F. Supp. 908 - Rivercity v. American Can Co. (1984), Keaty v. Moss Motors, Inc. (1994)
28 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 399 So. 2d 1276 - Pendleton v. Shell Oil Co. · Cargill Inc. v. Cementation Co. of America, 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“inasmuch as Shell owned the building with a right to make any alterations and without any prohibition against demolishing it, coupled with an unlimited right to use the property for any lawful purpose, we do not consider that Shell breached the lease by demolishing the old service station...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shall become Lessor's property at the termination of this lease.”
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.