Meyer v. Johnston & Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1945 · most notably Union Trust Co of New York v. Illinois Midland Ry Co Borg (1886), Union Trust Co. v. Morrison (1888)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Pennock v. Coe · Pierce v. Emery · Hoyle v. Plattsburgh & Montreal Railroad · Seymour & Brown v. Canandaigua & Niagara Falls Rail Road · Haven v. Emery
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A ship far from home, in distress, and without recourse, must perish, and perhaps her crew with her, if a "bottomry bond given then for repairs and supplies shall not have precedence of other liens upon the vessel. But the court does not consider a railroad on terra firma so beyond the reach of help from those who own it or are concerned in it as to justify the adoption in such case of the rule relating to a ship abroad and about to perish.””
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.