The Ansaldo San Giorgio I v. Rheinstrom Bros.’s Empirical Analysis
294 U.S. 494 · 1935
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 27 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 262 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2017 · most notably Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. (1960), New York Nh Hartford Co v. Nothnagle (1953)
100 federal appellate · 27 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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
reviewedRheinstrom Bros. v. Steamship Ansaldo San Giorgio I (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Adams Express Co. v. Croninger · Hart v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Carl · James Sackley Company v. United States · Railroad Company v. Lockwood
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 262 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he measure of the shipper's recovery is normally the market value of the goods at destination,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As pointed out by the court below if there were a short delivery of fifty cases out of a shipment of one hundred cases, but the market value of the goods delivered at the port of destination were equal to the invoice value of the hundred cases, plus freight, the carrier would pay nothing for negligent loss of half the shipment. Such an agreement is against' public policy -as 'its effect is to relieve the carrier from the consequences of its negligence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where a bill of lading stipulates the value of the goods and that in consideration •of the rate to be charged the carrier’s liability shall be limited to the stipulated value, damages for loss or injury are computed in the usual way without reference to the stipulation, but if when so computed they exceed the agreed limit of value no recovery of the excess may be had.””
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.