Continental Ins. v. Sabine Towing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
117 F.2d 694 · 1941
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2001
6 federal appellate · 1 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 Grace v. American Central Insurance · Craig v. Continental Insurance · Barnard v. Kellogg · General Mutual Insurance v. Sherwood · The Republic
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“relieve[s] the owner of personal liability, where he has not been personally negligent or privy to the negligence of his servants or agents, where in short the negligence or fault which causes the injury is attributable to him , not personally, but only under the doctrine of respondeat superior.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“without the privity or knowledge of such owner[s] . . . .”
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.