New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
240 F.2d 460 · 1957
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Mamiye Bros. v. Barber Steamship Lines, Inc. (1966), Tropical Marine Products, Inc. v. Birmingham Fire Insurance (1957)
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Union Ins Co Philadelphia v. Smith · The Steamboat New World v. King · Waters v. Merchants' Louisville Insurance · Orient Mut Ins Co v. Adams · Henjes v. Ætna Ins.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a time policy there is no implied warranty that the ship shall be seaworthy at any stage of the adventure, but where, with the privity of the assured, the ship is sent to sea in an unseaworthy state, the insurer is not liable for any loss attributable to unseaworthiness.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The phrase 'peril of the sea' is a term of art in maritime insurance law. The primary requirement for a finding of the existence of a peril of the sea is that 'damage be done by the fortuitous action of the sea.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘[f]or instance, where cargo was damaged by the incursion of seawater through a hold in a pipe gnawed by rats, the House of Lords held this to be a peril of the seas.'”
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.