The Blandon’s Empirical Analysis
287 F. 722 · 1922
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 1984
5 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Yet it was expressly agreed that tbe port might be ‘out of tbe customary route.’ What more limited sense can those words mean than a stop at a place some thirty hours away? It is said that the clause will allow only reasonable deviations, and this is indeed true, since such a clause is to be construed in its context. * * * For example, it might not allow a side voyage to Tampico or Galveston; certainly it would not permit a call at Rio or Montevideo. But it must mean to give the ship permission to steam by a different route from that she was otherwise bound to take, besides giving her leave to make ports of call en route; i. e., ‘in * * * the customary route.’ Such permission involves delay, and was meant to involve delay. * * * When contained in a bill of lading for a mixed cargo, it must be read as intended to give the ship some latitude in making up that cargo.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whatever, therefore, may be the rule before the ship breaks ground, it seems to me clear that thereafter the bill of lading, though signed by the charterer only, is the measure of the ship's duty and the cargo's 'privilege.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“But this is not possible in a time charter, where the destination is not described.”
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.