Beedy v. Pacey’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1953
3 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The ordinary duty of a carrier, where the consignee refuses to receive the goods shipped, is to store them either in his own warehouse or that of some responsible third party, notify the shipper or owner of such refusal, and hold them for a reasonable time subject to further orders. But if the shipper he the owner and consignee, no such duty is imposed on the carrier. The refusal of the owner to accept the goods, under such circumstances, constitutes an abandonment of the goods, and the owner is estopped from afterwards asserting that the carrier has converted them, no matter what disposition the carrier makes of them. The owner cannot make a sale of his goods to the carrier in that way. ’ ’”
2 later decisions 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.