Williams v. Theobald’s Empirical Analysis
15 F. 465 · 1883
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1964
3 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 Cross v. . Beard · Bjorkquist v. Certain Steel Rail Crop Ends
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.
““Tbs law could only raise an implied promise to do what was usually stipulated for by express covenant, viz., to discharge the skip in the usual and customary time for unloading such a cargo.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Corfe Castle
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.