Yellow Bayou Plantation, Inc. v. Shell Chemical, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
491 F.2d 1239 · 1974
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2007
13 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2111
Relies on The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · United States v. Blake · G. L. Nicklaus, Trustee for Helicopters, Inc. v. Hughes Tool Company
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The most that these items could have indicated was that absent third parties had made this claim to or against Shell from time to time. To exclude evidence of such faint probative value and high potential for unfair prejudice was well within the trial court's discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a list of lawsuits over, and complaints to Shell about, Planavin [the herbicide], offered to show that Shell knew or should have known that Planavin was ineffective.”
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.