American Car & Foundry Co. v. Brassert’s Empirical Analysis
289 U.S. 261 · 1933
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 168 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Wyandotte Transportation Co. v. United States (1967), Coryell v. Phipps (1943)
55 federal appellate · 12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedAmerican Car & Foundry Co. v. Brassert (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. · Red Cross Line v. Atlantic Fruit Co. · Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Southern Pacific Co. · Butler v. Boston & Savannah Steamship Co. · Wesley Richardson v. Judson Harmon
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 168 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“without the privity or knowledge of such owner.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The statute limiting the liability of shipowners was enacted to encourage investments in ships and their employment in commerce.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the shipping interests of this country might not suffer in competition with foreign vessels.”
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.