Crancer v. Lowden’s Empirical Analysis
121 F.2d 645 · 1941
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1998
8 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on General American Tank Car Corporation v. El Dorado Terminal Co · Lowden v. Simonds-Shields-Lonsdale Grain Co. · United States v. Barnes · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Borserine v. Maryland Casualty 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since the case was tried without a jury, we can see no possible prejudice to appellants by the consideration of the opinion of the Commission by the Court as evidence, rather than by an examination of the same opinion in his library. There is no suggestion that the latter course would have been improper. The trial court did not treat the opinion as being res adjudicata.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crancer v. Lowden““ * * * Obviously, if the articles were scrap iron fit for remelting purposes only, their purchase by appellants for another purpose would not change the character of the articles.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The articles were shipped in open coal cars. The good and the bad were commingled, were loose in the cars * * *;”
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.