W. A. Stackpole Motor Transportation, Inc. v. Malden Spinning & Dyeing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
263 F.2d 47 · 1958
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2004
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Commercial Casualty Ins Co v. Consolidated Stone Co · Steamship Willdomino v. Citro Chemical Co. · Alcoa Ss Co v. United States · Gulf Colorado Santa Fe Railway Company v. Texas Packing Company · Pennsylvania Railroad v. Olivit Bros.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not aware of any cases applying this rule of maritime law in cases involving the carriage of goods on land ... we see no reason why that rule should not apply on land as well as at sea.”
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.