Quillan’s Empirical Analysis
180 F. 681 · 1910
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2002
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Jason · The Wm. J. Quillan
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Clearly, much of the Shippers' case rests upon this contention and the companion assertion that Congress codified the fault- or knowledge-based rule of Quillan when it enacted COGSA. 27 39 The facts of Quillan are straightforward. In 1905, a cargo owner chartered the schooner William J. Quillan to carry a cargo of tankage (a dry powder derived from processed street garbage) from Barren Island, New York, to Savannah, Georgia. Tankage, observed the Quillan Court,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The conclusion arrived at by the highest courts of the greatest commercial nation in the world [ i.e., Great Britain] ought to have weight everywhere.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not show that the defendants [in that case] would have been held liable if they had not known that the contents of the casks were dangerous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.