Earn Line S. S. Co. v. Sutherland S. S. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
264 F. 276 · 1920
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2002 · most notably Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co. v. Flint (1927), Omnia Commercial Co. v. United States (1923)
18 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 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 Employers' Liability Cases · The Steamship Styria v. James L Morgan · Damselle Howard v. Illinois Central Railroad Company · The G. R. Booth · Allanwilde Transport Corporation v. Vacuum Oil Co Same
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“application was made for the privilege of so appearing is of no personal concern to the parties, and the court may grant or refuse the request, according as it deems the proffered information timely and useful or otherwise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it would be 'a strange law' which required . . . (a promisor) to resist, 'till the hand of power was laid upon him, an order which it was his duty to obey'.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“apprehension of restraint, something much less than actual government compulsion, may suffice to dissolve the obligation of a contract.”
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.