Elias Siegelman, Individually, and as Administrator of the Estate of Eva Siegelman, Deceased v. Cunard White Star Limited’s Empirical Analysis
221 F.2d 189 · 1955
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 11 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably M/s Bremen v. Zapata off-Shore Company (1972), Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. (1960)
56 federal appellate · 11 district · 12 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen · Garrett v. Co
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under Rule 8, a pleading must contain a short and plain statement of the claim showing that the pleader is entitled to relief. It is not necessary to set out the legal theory on which the claim is based.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a)ll questions arising on this contract ticket shall be decided according to English law with reference to which this contract is made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there [was] no suggestion that English law [the stipulated law of the contract] is oppressive to passengers.”
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.