Calmar Ss Corp v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Wilburn Boat Company v. Fireman's Fund Insurance Company (1955), Steinhort v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1964)
46 federal appellate · 6 district · 3 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
reviewedCalmar S.S. Corp. v. Scott (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Wilkerson v. McCarthy · Standard Oil Co of New Jersey v. United States · Queen Insurance Co. of America v. Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance · Standard Oil Co of New Jersey v. United States · Calmar Ss Corp v. United States
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Construing such conglomerate provisions requires a skill not unlike that called for in the decipherment of obscure palimpsest texts. A judicial sigh recently uttered at the seat of Lloyd's evokes a sympathetic echo. `Freight insurance entered into on the old form of marine insurance policy with deletions or additions to adapt the form to the intended contract [has] almost invariably given rise to difficulties, and the present case [is] no exception.' Mr. Justice Sellers in Atlantic Maritime Co. v. Gibbon, [1 All ER 893, 899] Law Report, March 16, 1953, The Times, March 17, p. 11 [(Eng) [1953] 2 West LR 725]. One envies not merely the perceptiveness of Lord Mansfield in matters of commercial law but his genial means of informing himself. We cannot resort to the elastic procedure by which Mansfield sought enlightenment at dinners with `knowing and considerable merchants,' nor have we any Elder Brethren of Trinity House to help us.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Touching the Adventures and Perils which we, the said Underwriters, are contented to bear and take upon us, they are of the Seas, Men-of-War, Fire, Lightning, Earthquake, Enemies, Pirates, Rovers, Assailing Thieves, Jettisons, Letters of Mart and Counter-Mart, Surprisals, Takings at Sea, Arrests, Restraints and Detainments of all Kings, Princes and Peoples, of what nation, condition or quality soever, Barratry of the Master and Mariners and of all other like Perils, Losses and Misfortunes that have or shall come to the Hurt, Detriment or Damage of the said Vessel, & c. or any part thereof.”
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.