Cross v. . Beard’s Empirical Analysis
1862
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1963 · most notably Mansfield v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co. (1886), Moore v. United States (1905)
2 federal appellate · 14 district · 21 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.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In such cases the defendant is not charged for the payment of a sum pursuant to the terms of a contract, but for general damages for the breach of his implied agreement. This involves a greater or less degree of delinquency, and it would, therefore, be unreasonable to hold the defendant responsible, if he was able to show that it was in no respect his fault that there was a delay in loading or unloading the vessel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.