The Minnetonka’s Empirical Analysis
146 F. 509 · 1906
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 8 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably Lichten v. Eastern Airlines, Inc. (1951), Central Hudson Gas Electric Corporation v. Empresa Naviera Santa Sa (1995)
25 federal appellate · 8 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 The Majestic · The Steamer Syracuse · The Kensington · York Company v. Central Railroad · New Jersey Steamboat Co. v. Brockett
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“New York, June 6, 11)13. This ticket is good for first-class passage of 3 adults, 1 child,-servants, -infants, by the British steamship Cretic, to sail from Boston for Genoa on Juno 28/13, unless prevented by some unforeseen circumstances, upon tho following conditions, which are agreed upon between the carrier and each passenger, viz.: At 4 p. in. $ $ $ $ * * * * sis * * # * 4. Neither the shipowner, agent, master, or passage broker shall be liable as carrier in any form or manner for any article specified in section 4281 of tlie Revised statutes of the United States, shipped or taken on tlie vessel by any passenger in any baggage, unless the passenger at the time of such lading shall give to the shipowner, master, agent, clerk, or broker of the vessel a written notice of the true character and value thereof, and, if required, produce the same for inspection, and have the same entered on a bill of lading therefor, or unless such articles be delivered into the personal custody of the purser of the vessel, and the true character and value thereof stated in writing; and in the event of such deposit, neither the vessel, nor her owner, master, agent, or passage broker, shall be liable in respect of the ar- tides deposited, beyond the sum of $100, which sum it is mutually agreed that the value of the articles does not exceed, unless value in excess of that sum be declared, and a further Charge thereon be paid or tendered in advance on the excess value at the rate of 1 per cent. Ne”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Cretic“[t]he archaic doctrine that the moment a servant of a carrier commits a wanton assault upon a passenger he acts outside the scope of his authority and thus releases his employer from liability was long ago renounced by the great preponderance of authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a] court of admiralty ... should not be hampered in its efforts to reach ... substantial justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.