Russell v. . Allerton’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently May 1972 · most notably Wood v. . Duff-Gordon (1917), 14 E.H. Smith 549 - Gillet v. . Bank of America (1899)
12 federal appellate · 60 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
Relies on Duplex Safety Boiler Co. v. . Garden
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not think that the effect of the words in the charter party, ‘charterers to approve the ventilation,’ was to leave the subject of the ventilation of the ship to the absolute, unreasonable, and wholly arbitrary decision of the charterer.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.