Gates v. Shell Offshore, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
881 F.2d 215 · 1989
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2009
12 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
Applies 43 U.S.C. § 1333
Relies on The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · United Mine Workers, Local No. 1854 v. National Labor Relations Board · Walker v. United States · White v. Murtha · Culver v. Slater Boat 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as long as they are fundamentally accurate and not misleading.”
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.