Eichberg & Co. v. Van Orman Fort Wayne Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
248 F.2d 758 · 1957
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 1995
3 federal appellate ·
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 35 Cal. 2d 343 - Gardner v. Jonathan Club · Fisher v. Kelsey · Employers' Liability Assurance Corp. v. Maryland Casualty 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A hotel, apartment hotel, or inn, or the proprietor or manager thereof, shall not be liable for the loss of or damage to any merchandise samples or merchandise for sale, whether such loss or damage is occasioned by the negligence of such proprietor or manager or his agents or otherwise, unless the guest or other owner shall have given prior written notice of having brought such merchandise into the hotel and of the value thereof, the receipt of such notice shall have been acknowledged in writing by the proprietor, manager or other agent and in no event shall such liability exceed the sum of four hundred dollars ($400.00) unless the manager or proprietor of such hotel, apartment hotel, or inn shall have contracted in writing to assume a greater liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The legal relations between plaintiff and defendant, prevailing at common law between innkeepers and guests, has been so drastically altered and differently defined by the legislature that both theories [bailment and misrepresentation] under-girding plaintiff’s complaint fail.”
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.