Shell Oil Co. v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2014
2 federal appellate · 2 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 103 So. 2d 603 - Tampa Drug Company v. Wait · 245 So. 2d 259 - Edwards v. California Chemical Company · 407 So. 2d 613 - Lollie v. General Motors Corp. · Zunck v. Gulf Oil Corporation
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absent a showing that they had not taken necessary precautions commensurate with the dangers reasonably anticipated under the circumstances, they were not responsible for warning the ultimate users of the gas.”
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.