The Ice King’s Empirical Analysis
261 F. 897 · 1919
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1956
6 federal appellate · 2 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 Luckenbach v. W. J. McCahan Sugar Refining Co. · Pendleton v. Benner Line · Capitol Transp Co v. Cambria Steel Co · The Loyal · Line v. Pendleton
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We very much appreciate the danger that the act should be cut down from its intended effect by too easy a finding of privity or knowledge on tho part of owners, as also by too liberal an attribution to them of contracts as personally theirs. We are not disposed to press the law in those directions further than the cases go.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The No. 34
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.