North German Lloyd v. Guaranty Trust Company’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Columbus Ry Power Light Co v. City of Columbus Ohio (1919), Picard Const. Co. v. Board of Com'rs (1926)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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
reviewedthe decision below (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on The Steamship Styria v. James L Morgan · Craig v. United Insurance · Lakeman v. Pollard
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Business contracts must be construed with business sense, as they naturally would be understood by intelligent men of affairs.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We are wholly unable to accept the argument that although a shipowner may give up his voyage to avoid capture after war is declared, he never is at liberty to anticipate war. In this case the anticipation was correct, and the master is not to be put in the wrong by nice calculations that if all went well he might have delivered the gold and escaped capture by the margin of a few hours.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Wildwood
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.