White v. . Ashton’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 1955
4 federal appellate · 14 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.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This contract, however, contained no limitation as- to the route to be taken by the vessel. It was simply a contract that the barley was to be ‘delivered at the port of Baltimore in good order, the dangers of the seas excepted.’ This authorized the carrier to take either of several customary and usual routes. Such is the legal effect of the contract (Angelí on Carriers, §§ 179, 226). Its effect was the same as if the provision had been inserted in the contract, that the carrier- was at liberty to take any customary or usual route, in his discretion.” ......”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.