The Carso’s Empirical Analysis
43 F.2d 736 · 1930
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 1987 · most notably Demsey & Associates, Inc. v. S.S. Sea Star (1972), Stevenson Co Inc v. Bags of Flour Adm Milling Co Inc (1980)
9 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 49 U.S.C. § 102
Relies on Gleason v. Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. · Swiss Nat Ins Co v. Miller · Austin Nichols & Co. v. Steamship "Isla de Panay" · Higgins v. Anglo-Algerian S. S. Co. · The Persiana
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It matters not, I think, that the bill of lading is not negotiable. For what difference can it make whether the steamship owner issues a document which it may reasonably expect will be acted on to his detriment by a particular man or by many men — by a man whose name it knows or by men whose names it knows not?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Libelants considered themselves bound to the consignee and `were not called on to engage in a litigation involving such difficulties of proof and at the same time possibly damage their credits by dishonoring' their reputation in the skin market.”
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.