Louisiana Co v. Gardiner’s Empirical Analysis
273 U.S. 280 · 1927
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 10 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Midstate Horticultural Co. v. Pennsylvania Railroad (1943), 134 S. Ct. 604 - Heimeshoff v. Hartford Life & Accident Ins. Co. (2013)
13 federal appellate · 10 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Adams Express Co. v. Croninger · Chattanooga Foundry & Pipe Works v. City of Atlanta · Campbell v. City of Haverhill · Meeker v. Lehigh Valley Railroad · Missouri Kansas Texas Railway Company v. Harriman Brothers
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“declar[ing] unlawful any limitation shorter than two years from the time notice is given of the disallowance of the claim”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“That it shall be unlawful for any such receiving or delivering common carrier to provide by rule, contract, regulation, or otherwise a shorter period for the filing of claims than nine months, and for the institution of suits than two years, such period for institution of suits to be computed from the day when notice in writing is given by the carrier to the claimant that the carrier has disallowed the claim or any part or parts thereof specified in the notice. .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a shorter period for giving notice of claims than ninety days and for the filing of claims for a shorter period than four months, and for the institution of suits than two years”
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.