City of Long Beach v. American President Lines, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
223 F.2d 853 · 1955
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 1992 · most notably Pacific Tow Boat Co. v. States Marine Corp. (1960), 31 Cal. 3d 446 - Societa Per Azioni De Navigazione Italia v. City of Los Angeles (1982)
26 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 McAllister v. United States · In Re Disbarment of Isserman · Bisso v. Inland Waterways Corp. · Boston Metals Company the St Francis v. The S/s Winding Gulf · United States v. Nielson
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think we should not haggle over the intervening distance between the point where the compulsory pilot takes over to perform his duty of bringing the ship into Long Beach Harbor so long as the performance begins within a reasonable distance of the Long Beach border.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Long Beach said, 'Stay out unless you let us furnish you our pilot at a price we fix, which you shall pay us, and which you shall not pay the pilot.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“because it thinks it is good business for it, representing its citizens, to do so.”
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.