The Chickie’s Empirical Analysis
141 F.2d 80 · 1944
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Signal Oil & Gas Company v. Barge (1981), Karim v. Finch Shipping Co. (2001)
27 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 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 Just v. Chambers · Coryell v. Phipps · Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Southern Pacific Co. · The " Scotland" · Place v. Norwich & New York Transportation 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The vessel owner, within six months after a claimant shall have given to or filed with such owner written notice of claim, may petition a district court of the United States of competent jurisdiction for limitation of liability within the provisions of this chapter.... Upon compliance with the requirements of this section all claims and proceedings against the owner with respect to the matter in question shall cease.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The liability of the owner of any vessel ... for any act, matter, or thing, loss, damage, or forfeiture, done, occasioned, or incurred, without the privity or knowl edge of such owner or owners, shall not ... exceed the amount or value of the interest of such owner in such vessel, and her freight then pending.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The six months limitation was inserted only in what may be called the procedural section, Sec. 185.”
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.