Krauss Bros. Lumber v. Dimon Steamship Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
290 U.S. 117 · 1933
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Exxon Corp. v. Central Gulf Lines, Inc. (1991), Archawski v. Hanioti (1956)
69 federal appellate · 9 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
reviewedKrauss Bros. Lumber Co. v. Dimon S. S. Corp. (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Matson Nav Co v. United States · Robert Vandewater v. Edward Mills · Osaka Shosen Kaisha v. Pacific Export Lumber Co. · the Schooner Freeman v. Alvah Buckingham · Dupont De Nemours Co v. John Vance et al.
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Only upon the lading of the vessel or at least when she is ready to receive the cargo — when there is ‘union of ship and cargo’ — does the contract become the Contract of the vessel and the right to the lien attach. No lien for breach of the contract to carry results from failure of the vessel to receive and load the cargo or a part of it. See The Osaka Shosen Kaisha v. Pacific Export Lumber Co., supra.” (Emphasis added.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“this does not mean that the right to the lien is not to be recognized and upheld, when within accepted supporting principles, merely because the circumstances ... are unusual or infrequent”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Admiralty is not concerned with the form of the action, but with its substance.”
3 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.