Allen v. Matson Navigation Co.’s Empirical Analysis
255 F.2d 273 · 1958
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2015 · most notably Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. (1959), Tepper v. Chichester (1960)
30 federal appellate · 2 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Hawn · Chelentis v. Luckenbach Steamship Co. · Pennsylvania Company v. Roy · Dyer v. MacDougall
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The sufficiency of certain evidence to raise a question of fact for the jury * * * should not be controlled by state law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“extraordinary vigilance and the highest skill”
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.