Celio v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1990
8 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Relies on Robert Vandewater v. Edward Mills · Osaka Shosen Kaisha v. Pacific Export Lumber Co. · the Schooner Freeman v. Alvah Buckingham · the Lady Franklin · The Keokuk
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the maritime law of the United States the vessel is bound to the cargo, and the cargo bound to the vessel, for the performance of a contract of affreightment; but the law creates no lien on a vessel as a security for the performance of a contract to transport cargo, until some lawful contract of affreightment is. made, and a cargo shipped under it.””
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.