Boston Ins. v. Dehydrating Process Co.’s Empirical Analysis
204 F.2d 441 · 1953
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2020 · most notably McAllister v. United States (1954), Tropical Marine Products, Inc. v. Birmingham Fire Insurance (1957)
25 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · United States v. Yellow Cab Co. · Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal v. United States · Petterson Lighterage & Towing Corp. v. New York Central R. · J. Aron & Co. v. Dannebrog
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a counter presumption arises that the unexplained sinking and consequent loss was caused by some extraordinary, although unknown and unascertainable, peril of the sea.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“although there is evidence to support it, the reviewing court on the entire evidence is left with a definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
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.