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Shell Oil Co. v. Amoco Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

970 F.2d 885 · 1992

Citation profile

cited by 84 later decisions

March 2010

most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 31 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Bp Chemicals Limited v. Union Carbide Corporation (1993), Sandisk Corporation v. Stmicroelectronics Inc Nv (2007)

9 federal appellate · 31 district ·

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 28 U.S.C. § 2201

Relies on Aetna Life Ins Co of Hartford Conn v. Haworth · Arrowhead Industrial Water, Inc. v. Ecolochem, Inc. · Jervis Webb Company v. Southern Systems Inc · Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co v. Releasomers, Inc.

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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“level sufficient to indicate an intent to enforce its patent.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Bell Atlantic Corp. v. MFS Communications Co., Inc. · 851 F. Supp. 1260 - Century Industries, Inc. v. Wenger Corp.
“First, the defendant’s conduct must have created on the part of plaintiff a reasonable apprehension that the defendant will initiate suit if the plaintiff continues the allegedly infringing activity. Second, the plaintiff must actually have either produced the device or have prepared to produce that device.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 396 F. Supp. 2d 340 - Neil Bros. Ltd. v. World Wide Lines, Inc. · 935 F. Supp. 737 - Bioxy, Inc. v. Birko Corp.
“[w]hen the defendant's conduct, including its statements, falls short of an express charge, one must consider the `totality of the circumstances' in determining whether that conduct meets the first prong of the test.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. CAE Screenplates, Inc. v. Beloit Corp. · 851 F. Supp. 1260 - Century Industries, Inc. v. Wenger Corp.

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.