Gates v. Shell Oil’s Empirical Analysis
812 F.2d 1509 · 1987
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2013
9 federal appellate · 4 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 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 902 · 33 U.S.C. § 933 · 43 U.S.C. § 1331 (Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006) · 43 U.S.C. § 1333 · 43 U.S.C. § 1349
Relies on The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Gulf Offshore Company v. Mobil Oil Corporation · Eichel v. New York Central Railroad · Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs v. Perini North River Associates
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The Louisiana Compensation Law setting up the `statutory employer' definition of coverage is inconsistent with and contrary to LHWCA."”
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.