Long v. Silver Line, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
48 F.2d 15 · 1931
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Riley v. Agwilines, Inc. (1947), Johnson v. A/S Ivarans Rederi (1980)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Hardie v. New York Harbor Dry Dock Corp. · The Saratoga · The Auchenarden · Harty v. Cromwell S. S. Co. · The Clan Graham
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no duty to keep a dark way safe if a light way is provided.”
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.