Crossman v. Burrill’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1992
7 federal appellate · 5 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 Insurance Company v. Dutcher · Penn Mut Life Ins Co v. City of Austin · Chicago v. Sheldon · Fuller v. . Kemp · 2 E.H. Smith 326 - Nassoiy v. . Tomlinson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t would be a wide stretch to hold that by this language of the bill of lading, which plainly refers only to the provisions of the charter party as to freight money, a consignee would become liable to demurrage if he accepted the cargo under such a bill.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“depended altogether on the contract created by the bills of lading, except so far as that contract referred to the charter party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“paying freight for said lumber as per charter party dated 7th March, 1893 and average accustomed.”
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.