Reider v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
339 U.S. 113 · 1950
Citation profile
196 federal appellate · 26 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 445 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2020 · most notably Dwares v. City of New York (1993), Derek Tolbert v. Queens College the City University of New York Stuart Liebman Helen Smith Cairns Eric Gander (2001)
196 federal appellate · 26 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
reviewedReider v. Thompson (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Texas New Orleans Railroad Company v. Sabine Tram Company · Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Wallace · United States v. Erie Railroad · Missouri Pac Co v. Porter
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 445 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“relieve shippers of the burden of searching out a particular negligent carrier from among the often numerous carriers handling an interstate shipment of goods.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the various parties dealing with this shipment separated the carriage into distinct portions by their contracts, it is not for courts judicially to meld the portions into something they are not.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The case of Alwine vs. Pennsylvania R. Co. (citation omitted) , much relied on by respondent and the Court of Appeals, is not in point. We need not now determine whether that case was correctly decided. For purposes of this case it is sufficient to note that there the Pennsylvania Court emphasized that the shipment came into this country on a through bill of lading from Canada. The contract of carriage did not terminate at the border, as in the instant case.” Reider v. Thompson, 339 U.S. 113, 117 , 70 S.Ct. 499 , 94 L.Ed. 698 (1950).”
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.