Alamo Refining Co. v. Shell DevelOpment Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Frederick Hart & Co. v. Recordgraph Corp. · Dewey & Almy Chemical Co. v. American Anode, Inc. · Withrow v. Edwards · Treemond Co. v. Schering Corp. · Kohler v. Humphrey
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * unless Kellogg or Universal were given specific authority to make such threats on behalf of these defendants, there is no justiciable controversy and the complaint should be dismissed. * * * ””
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.