Erie Railroad Company v. Erie Western Transportation Company’s Empirical Analysis

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46 federal appellate · 25 district · 6 state decisions

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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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The rule of the common law, even, that there is no contribution between wrongdoers, is subject to exception. Pollock, Torts, 7th Ed. 195, 196. Whatever its origin, the admiralty rule in this country is well known to be the other way.” The North Star, 106 U. S. 17 , 1 S. Ct. 41 , 27 L. Ed. 91 ; The Sterling (The Equator), 106 U. S. 647 , 1 S. Ct. 89 , 27 L. Ed. 98 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. New York & Porto Rico S. S. Co. v. Lee's Lighters, Inc. · 45 F. Supp. 174 - The Tampico

2. ““Tills is a libel in admiralty brought by the petitioner as successor in corporate identity to the Union Steamboat Company, to recover a part of a sum paid by it to the respondent as the result of previous admiralty proceedings which came before this court several times. The former proceedings were begun by the respondent, as owner of the propeller Conemaugh and bailee of her cargo, to recover for damages to botli by a collision between her and the propeller New York. After hearings below (The Conemaugh [D. C.] 53 Fed. 553 ; The New York, 82 Fed. 819 , 27 C. C. A. 154 ; Id., 86 Fed. 814 , 30 C. C. A. 628 ), it was decided by this court, on certiorari, that both vessels were in fault, and that the representatives of the cargo could recover their whole damages from the New York. The New York, 175 U. S. 187 . 20 Sup. Ct. 67 , 44 L. Ed. 126 . Thereupon the District Court entered a decree dividing tlie damages sustained by the steamers, requiring Ihe New York to pay to the Conemaugh on that account $13,083.33 and interest, and further required it to pay all the damages to the cargo of the latter — the insurers on cargo who had intervened receiving their share, and the Conemaugh receiving the residue as trustee. The owners of the New York then applied to this court for a mandamus directing the District Court to divide the damages to cargo. This was denied on the ground that if the court below erred the remedy was by appeal. Ex parte Union Steamboat Company, 178 U. S. 317 , 20 Sup. ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Maine

3. ““The liability of the New York under our practice for all the damage to cargo was one of the consequences plainly to be foreseen, and, since the Oonemaugh was answerable to the New York as a partial cause of the tort, its responsibility extended to all the manifest consequences for which, on the general ground that they were manifest, the New York could be held.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Eastern Dredging Co.