Lord v. Steamship Co.’s Empirical Analysis
102 U.S. 541 · 1880
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 21 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2011 · most notably Johnson v. Southern Pacific Co. (1904), Cunard Co v. Mellon (1923)
21 federal appellate · 21 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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
Relies on Gibbons v. Ogden · United States v. Steffens · Samuel Thurlow v. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts · United States v. Holliday
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“entered on a navigation which was necessarily connected with other nations,”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The single question presented by the assignment of errors is, whether Congress has power to regulate the liability of the owners of vessels navigating the high seas, but engaged only in the transportation of goods and passengers between ports and places in the same State. .It is conceded that while the Ventura carried goods from place to place in California, her voyages were always ocean voyages. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Theprovis-ions of [this title, the seven preceding sections.] relating to the limitation of the liability of the owners of vessels, shall not apply to the owners of any canal-boat, barge, or lighter, or to any vessel of any description whatsoever, used in rivers or inland navigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lawton v. Comer
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.