New York Nh Hartford Co v. Nothnagle’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
202 federal appellate · 40 district · 116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 548 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. James N. Kirby, Pty Ltd. (2004), Griffin v. Nationwide Moving & Storage Co. (1982)
202 federal appellate · 40 district · 116 state decisions — followed in 21 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.
Relationships
Relies on Adams Express Co. v. Croninger · Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Carl · Boston & Maine Railroad v. Hooker · Sprout v. City of South Bend
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 548 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]nly by granting its customers a fair opportunity to choose between higher or lower liability by paying a correspondingly greater or lesser charge can a carrier lawfully limit recovery to an amount less than the actual loss sustained.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“With the enactment in 1906 of the Carmack Amendment, Congress superseded diverse state laws with a nationally uniform policy governing interstate carriers' liability for property loss.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“rates dependent upon the value declared in writing by the shipper or agreed upon in writing as the released value of the property, ...”
4 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.