Cleveland Terminal Valley Railroad Company v. Cleveland Steamship Company’s Empirical Analysis
208 U.S. 316 · 1908
Citation profile
93 federal appellate · 45 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 280 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Crowell v. Benson (1932), Jerome Grubart Inc v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company City of Chicago (1995)
93 federal appellate · 45 district · 21 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 The Plymouth · Homer Ramsdell Transportation Company v. La Compagnie Generale Transatlantique · Johnson v. Chicago & Pacific Elevator Co. · The Blackheath
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 280 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bridges, shore docks, protection piling, piers, etc., pertained to the land”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The true meaning of the rule of locality in cases of maritime torts was that the wrong must have been committed wholly on navigable waters, or at least the substance and consummation oí the same must have taken place upon those waters to be within the admiralty jurisdiction. A substantial cause of action arising out of the wrong must be complete within tlie locality on which the jurisdiction depended.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Raithmoor“was to property located in navigable waters, solely an aid to navigation and maritime in nature, and having no other purpose or function. . . . But the bridges, shore docks, protection piling, piers, etc.,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Raithmoor
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.