In re the Vessel Marine Sulphur Queen’s Empirical Analysis
460 F.2d 89 · 1972
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Nichimen Company, Inc. v. M. v. Farland, Her Engines, Boilers, Etc., and A/s Vigra, Defendants-Appellants-Appellees v. Seaboard Shipping Co., Ltd. (1972), Baker v. Raymond International, Inc. (1981)
66 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Udall v. Tallman · Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki · Glidden Company v. Zdanok Et Al. · Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc.
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“gross negligence or actual malice or criminal indifference.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“entitled to great weight and will ordinarily stand unless the lower court manifests an incorrect conception of the applicable law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]s between the original parties to it a bill of lading never affects the terms of the charter party.... The usual practice is for the master, or agent of the shipowner, to give bills of lading for the cargo, although it may be shipped under a charter party. When the charterer himself ships the goods these bills of lading operate as receipts for them, and also as documents of title which he can negotiate, and thereby constructively transfer possession of the goods. But they do not, as between the shipowner and the charterer, operate as new contracts, or as modifying the contract in the charter party.... [W]here there is a charter party [a bill of lading] never supersedes any unequivocal provisions [of the charter party].... The rule is that where there is a charter party the bill of lading operates as the receipt for the goods, and as a document of title passing the property of the goods, but not as varying the contract between the charterer and the shipowner.”
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.