The Fredensbro’s Empirical Analysis
38 F.2d 501 · 1930
Citation profile
1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 1961
1 district · 1 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 221
Relies on The " Potomac" · Hall Long v. The Railroad Companies · The Servia the Noordland Nichels v. The Servia · United States v. One Case of Clocks · City of Los Angeles v. Standard Transp. 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * The general rule is well established that an underwriter who has paid a loss is entitled to recover what he has paid by a suit in the name of the assured against the carrier who caused the loss. Hall & Long v. The Railroad Companies, 80 U.S. (13 Wall.) 367 , 20 L.Ed. 594 ; The Potomac, 105 U.S. 630 , 26 L.Ed. 1194 ; The Fort Gaines (D.C.) 24 F. (2d) 849.””
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.