Acree v. Shell Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 524 · 1983
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2004
19 federal appellate · 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 Freeman v. Continental Gin Co. · Ryan v. Foster & Marshall, Inc. · Smith v. Mobil Corp. · Watson v. Callon Petroleum Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“district court's interpretation of state law will not be disturbed on appeal unless it is clearly wrong”
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.