Shell Petroleum, N.V. v. Graves’s Empirical Analysis
709 F.2d 593 · 1983
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Franchise Tax Board of California v. Alcan Aluminium Ltd. (1990), Soranno's Gasco, Inc. v. Morgan (1989)
13 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1341 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Patsy v. Board of Regents of Fla. · Sumitomo Shoji America, Inc. v. Avagliano · Credithrift of America, Inc. v. United States · Sherman v. British Leyland Motors, Ltd. · Michael J. Von Brimer, Co-Executors of the Estate of Joseph W. Von Brimer, Deceased v. Whirlpool 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To have standing to maintain an action, a shareholder must assert more than personal economic injury resulting from a wrong to the corporation. A shareholder must be injured directly and independently of the corporation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he district courts shall not enjoin, suspend or restrain the assessment, levy or collection of any tax under State law where a plain, speedy and efficient remedy may be had in the courts of such State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Generally, a shareholder does not have standing to redress an injury to the corporation in which it holds stock.”
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.