Line v. Pendleton’s Empirical Analysis
217 F. 497 · 1914
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 14 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1969 · most notably Luckenbach v. W. J. McCahan Sugar Refining Co. (1918), Pendleton v. Benner Line (1918)
12 federal appellate · 14 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on The Caledonia · The Edwin Morrison Bradley Fertilizer Co v. Lavender · The Carib Prince · The Beaconsfield · Baer v. Moran Bros.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pendleton Bros., agents of the schooner ‘Edith Olcott’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“tight, staunch, strong, and.in every way fitted”
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.