Boston Metals Company the St Francis v. The S/s Winding Gulf’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
109 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 173 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2012 · most notably M/s Bremen v. Zapata off-Shore Company (1972), Bisso v. Inland Waterways Corp. (1955)
109 federal appellate · 10 district ·
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
reviewedBoston Metals Co. v. Winding Gulf (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Liverpool & Great Western Steam Co. v. Phenix Insurance · Bisso v. Inland Waterways Corp. · Stevens v. The White City · Railroad Company v. Lockwood · Sun Oil Co. v. Dalzell Towing Co.
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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are not to be applied to alter familiar rules visiting liability upon a tortfeasor for the consequences of his negligence, unless the clarity of the language used expresses such to be the understanding of the contracting parties.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Like all attempts to describe desired legal consequences through use of inapposite concepts, the momentum of the symbolic concept may induce consequences beyond those which the true nature of the problem justifies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“economics and organization of this business”
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.