Smith v. Ellerman Lines, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
247 F.2d 761 · 1957
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2008 · most notably Salem v. United States Lines Company (1962), McNello v. John B. Kelly, Inc. (1960)
17 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 Hormel v. Helvering · Fillippon v. Albion Vein Slate Co. · Cahill v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · United States v. Vasen · Decker v. Korth
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No party may assign as error the giving or the failure to give an instruction unless he objects thereto before the jury retires to consider its verdict, stating distinctly the matter to which he objects and the grounds of his objection. Opportunity shall be given to make the objection out of the hearing of the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nimrod v. Sylvester
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.