Colgin v. Security Storage Van Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1960
4 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 Alex W. Rothschild Co. v. Lynch · Scott v. Sample · Gibbons v. Yazoo & M. V. R. · Williams v. Gallagher Transfer & Storage Co. · Gott v. Dinsmore
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The depositary is bound to use the same diligence in preserving the deposit that he uses in preserving his own property. Civ.Code art. 2937. And, where he is unable to explain the disappearance of the deposit or to show his own freedom from negligence, he is liable. Nicholls v. Roland, 11 Mart., O.S., 190; Short v. Lapeyreuse, 24 La.Ann. 45 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“12. Our responsibility for any one-piece or package (and contents of such package) is limited to the sum of fifty dollars, unless value is declared at time of securing rate and special charge is made for higher valuation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.