McCormick v. Shippy’s Empirical Analysis
124 F. 48 · 1903
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1955
6 federal appellate ·
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 Sun Printing Publishing Association v. William L Moore · Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Co. v. Voigt · The New Jersey Steam Navigation Company v. The Merchants' Bank of Boston · Hartford Fire Insurance Company v. Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway Company · Clark v. United States
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no question of public policy involved in this contract, as in the case of a common carrier. It is well settled that the parties in such a case have the right to provide by apt language against liability for negligence. * * * The clause must be interpreted to include loss through negligence, because- for loss not arising from negligence he would not be liable.””
3 later decisions 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.