The Majestic’s Empirical Analysis
166 U.S. 375 · 1897
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 51 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 236 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably National Labor Relations Board v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1975), Commercial Molasses Corp. v. New York Tank Barge Corp. (1941)
73 federal appellate · 51 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on The Caledonia · City of St Louis v. Western Union Tel Co · The New Jersey Steam Navigation Company v. The Merchants' Bank of Boston · The Edwin Morrison Bradley Fertilizer Co v. Lavender · Lehnen v. Dickson
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 236 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'when a company desires to impose special and most stringent terms upon its customers, in exoneration of its own liability, there is nothing unreasonable in requiring that those terms shall be distinctly declared and deliberately accepted.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Neither the Shipowner nor the Passage Broker or Agent is in any case liable for loss of or injury to or delay in delivery of luggage or personal effects of the Passenger beyond the amount of £10, unless the value of the same in excess of that- sum be declared at or before the issue of this Contract Ticket, and freight at current rates. for every kind of property (except pictures, statuary, and valuables of any description upon which one per cent, will be charged) is paid.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is undoubtedly competent for carriers of passengers, by specific regulations, distinctly brought to the knowledge of the passenger, which are reasonable in their character and not inconsistent with any statute or their duties to the public, to protect themselves against liability, as insurers, for baggage exceeding a fixed amount in value, exeept upon additional compénsation. proportioned to the risk.” Railroad v. Fraloff, 100 U. S. 24 -27, 25 L. Ed. 531 .”
2 later decisions 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.