Cleveland’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
7 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Morris, Wilson v. Pleasant (1996)
7 district · 6 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.
Relationships
Relies on Vandygriff v. Phillips · Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Russell · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States · Middlesex County Sewerage Authority v. National Sea Clammers Assn. · Transamerica Mortgage Advisors, Inc. v. Lewis
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] claim for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing resulting in an award of punitive damages could well thwart one of the primary purposes of the Carmack Amendment; that is, to provide some uniformity in the disposition of claims brought under a bill of lading.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A carrier providing transportation or service . . . shall issue a bill of lading for property it receives for transportation . . . that carrier and any other carrier that delivers the property and is providing transportation or service . . . are liable to the person entitled to recover under the receipt or bill of lading. The liability imposed under this paragraph is for the actual loss or injury to the property caused by (A) the receiving carrier, (B) the delivery carrier, or (C) another carrier over whose line or route the property is transported in the United States . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]ecause the issue of a shipper's compensation for actual loss or injury to its property has been comprehensively and directly addressed by the Carmack Amendment, a federal common law cause of action — even assuming such exists — is displaced by the Act that has established those remedies Congress deems appropriate in this field.”
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.