The Patria’s Empirical Analysis
125 F. 425 · 1903
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1955
1 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 Pacific Coast S. S. Co. v. Bancroft-Whitney Co. · Doherr v. Houston · Hudson River Lighterage Co. v. Wheeler Condenser & Engineering 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I think that the rule applies that, when a common carrier receives goods in good condition and delivers them damaged, it has the burden of proof to show that the damage was caused by a risk excepted in the bill of lading, and, in the absence of satisfactory proof that the damage was so caused, the •court is justified in finding for the libelant, even if the cause of damage does not plainly appear.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Patria · The Presque Isle
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.