Dell v. American Export Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 1991
4 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on United States v. Sherwood · Johnson v. U. S. Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp. · Hammond-Knowlton v. United States · Paduano v. Yamashita Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha & Norton · Grillea 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No limitation period is involved. The claim against the United States is one for indemnity. A claim for indemnity does not accrue until the indemnitee’s liability is fixed. Obviously that has not yet occurred in this case. Hidalgo Steel Co. v. Moore & McCormack Co., Inc., D.C.S.D.N.Y., 298 F. 331, 334 .””
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.