Shell Petroleum Corp. v. Shore’s Empirical Analysis
80 F.2d 785 · 1935
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1970
7 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
Relies on Slocum v. New York Life Insurance · Barrett v. Virginian Railway Co. · Currie v. Southern Pacific Co. · Hayden v. Maine Central Railroad · Prudential Ins. Co. of America v. Stack
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.
“Ordinarily, after a judgment has been reversed on appeal and the cause remanded, the case stands for trial de novo on the issues properly joined. . . . With respect to the right of plaintiff to take a voluntary nonsuit, it stands in the same relative position which it occupied before the trial in the first instance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Angel v. Bullington
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.