Marks v. Shell Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
830 F.2d 68 · 1987
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Lowrey v. Texas A & M University System (1997), General Electric Company v. Sargent & Lundy (1990)
26 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 2801 (Petroleum Marketing Pract)
Relies on Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · Tefft v. Seward · Estes v. Kentucky Utilities Co. · Espey v. Wainwright
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the dismissal could not be sustained. 734 F.2d at 750. Because the district court did not consider the motion, we can discern no such”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]hough the decision to grant leave to amend is committed to the trial court's discretion, that discretion is limited by Fed.R.Civ.P. 15(a)'s liberal policy of permitting amendments to ensure the determination of claims on their merits.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Given the policy of liberality behind Rule 15(a), it is apparent that when a motion to amend is not even considered, much less not granted, an abuse of discretion has occurred.”
4 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.