Larsen v. Northland Transportation Co.’s Empirical Analysis
292 U.S. 20 · 1934
Citation profile
72 federal appellate · 18 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1994 · most notably Mercoid Corporation v. Mid-Continent Inv Co (1944), Coryell v. Phipps (1943)
72 federal appellate · 18 district · 15 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Langnes v. Green · United Shoe Machinery Corporation v. United States · United States v. Moser · Carlisle Packing Co. v. Sandanger · Providence Co v. Hill Manuf'G
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Statutory provisions ... for limitation of liability should be construed liberally in order to effectuate their beneficent purposes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The established rule in this Court is that if, in a second action between the same parties, a claim or demand different from the one sued upon in the prior action is presented, then the judgment in the former cause is an estoppel ‘only as to those matters in issue or points controverted, upon the determination of which the finding or verdict was rendered.’ ””
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.