The Titania’s Empirical Analysis
131 F. 229 · 1904
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2001 · most notably Caterpillar Overseas, S.A. v. S.S. Expeditor (1963), Isthmian Steamship Co. v. California Spray-Chemical Corp. (1962)
12 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.
Relationships
Relies on The Eddy · The Pietro G. · The Titania
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As before stated tbe bills of lading were prima facie evidence of tbe receipt of tbe bemp. We have, however, examined the testimony upon this question sufficiently to conclude that the weight of evidence, irrespective of the bills of lading, tends to show that the goods were actually on board at Manila.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Delivery on the wharf in the case of goods 'transported by ships is sufficient under our law, if due notice be given to the consignees and the different consignments be properly separated, so as to be open to inspection and conveniently accessible to their respective owners.””
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.