General American Transp. Corp. v. Indiana Harbor Belt R.’s Empirical Analysis
191 F.2d 865 · 1951
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 1994
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 Southern Railway Co. v. Prescott · North Pennsylvania v. Commercial Nat Bank of Chicago · Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Dettlebach · Galveston Wharf Co. v. Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. · Berwind-White Coal Mining Company v. Chicago & Erie Railroad Company
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This argument of the plaintiff that there must be actual delivery to an ocean vessel, carried to its logical conclusion would mean that the carrier’s liability could be kept in force indefinitely by the consignee by its simply failing to provide space on a ship onto which the shipment could be unloaded. This is not the law. There is considerable confusion in the language of the decisions as to. just when the insurer liability of the carrier terminates but it does not endure indefinitely. It seems clear that a tender of delivery, if refused by the consignee, would also terminate the carrier’s responsibility as an insurer. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision 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.