George L. Barger v. Bernard A. Hanson’s Empirical Analysis
426 F.2d 640 · 1970
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2018
6 federal appellate · 2 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 The Conqueror · The Umbria · Standard Oil Co. v. Southern Pacific Co. · The Baltimore · The Amiable Nancy
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The law] considers that ships are commodities bought and sold in the market, and that one may be purchased to take the place of one lost....”
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.