Charter Shipping Co. v. Bowring, Jones & Tidy, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
281 U.S. 515 · 1930
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 18 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 177 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1996 · most notably Piper Aircraft Co. v. Reyno (1982), Langnes v. Green (1931)
54 federal appellate · 18 district · 4 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBowring, Jones & Tidy, Ltd. v. Charter Shipping Co. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on The Belgenland · The Edwin Morrison Bradley Fertilizer Co v. Lavender · The Jason · The Maggie Hammond
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 177 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have no occasion to enquire by what law the rights of the parties are governed, as we are of the opinion that, under any view of that question, it lay within the discretion of the District Court to decline to assume jurisdiction over the controversy. . . . '[T]he court will not take cognizance of the case if justice would be as well done by remitting the parties to their home forum.'”
2 later decisions 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.