Williams v. Shell Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2007
2 district ·
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 250 F. Supp. 936 - Segal v. American Casualty Company of Reading, Pa. · McRae v. Arabian American Oil Co. · 51 Mich. App. 570 - Jamison v. Lloyd · 9 Mich. App. 176 - Dauer v. Zabel · 19 Mich. App. 198 - Dauer v. Zabel
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f state law applicable in the court from which the case is removed does not require the parties to make express demands in order to claim trial by jury, they need not make demands after removal unless the court directs that they do so within a specified time if they desire to claim trial by jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This provision is of limited applicability, and was intended to avoid inadvertent waivers of jury trials where state law requires that no express demand be made at all.””
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.