The Gracie D. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
253 F. 182 · 1918
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1987
7 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 The Tornado Ellis v. Atlantic Mut Ins Co · Henry Bulkley v. The Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company · Scott v. Ira Chaffee · National Steam Nav. Co., Ltd., of Greece, v. International Paper Co. · Ocean S. S. Co. v. United States Steel Products 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By our law freight is earned only upon delivery of cargo. The ship may have carried the cargo on a voyage of 3,000 miles, and to within 1 mile of destination; but the carrier has earned no freight, and must return any freight prepaid if he has not delivered.””
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.