Shell Petroleum Corp. v. Shore’s Empirical Analysis
72 F.2d 193 · 1934
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2010
5 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Klebe v. United States · Hawkins v. United States · Brewster v. Lanyon Zinc Co. · Mills v. Hartz · Denker v. Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp.
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.
“It is sufficient to say that in our judgment [plaintiffs] are not permitted to recover damages at law upon a state of facts in derogation of the express covenant contained in their written contract.”
2 later decisions 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.