Galveston Wharf Co. v. Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co.’s Empirical Analysis
285 U.S. 127 · 1932
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 4 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1993 · most notably A. M. Collins & Co. v. Panama R. Co. (1952), Republic Carloading & Distributing Co. v. Missouri Pacific Railroad (1962)
50 federal appellate · 4 district · 25 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 Georgia Florida Alabama Railway Company v. Blish Milling Company · Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Carl · Lewis v. Reynolds · Southern Railway Co. v. Prescott · Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Ward
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The bill of lading, required to be issued by the initial carrier upon an interstate shipment, `governs the entire transportation, and thus fixes the obligations of all participating carriers to the extent that the terms of the bill of lading are applicable and valid.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was that of a common carrier furnishing a necessary link in the transportation under the through bill of lading”
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.