Bennitt v. The Guiding Star’s Empirical Analysis
53 F. 936 · 1893
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1953
2 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Robert Vandewater v. Edward Mills · Pollard v. Vinton · the Schooner Freeman v. Alvah Buckingham · The Propeller Monticello v. Gilbert Mollison · Henry Bulkley v. The Naumkeag Steam Cotton Company
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"That every bill of lading- or instrument in the nature or stead thereof, acknowledging the receipt of cotton or oilier tilings, shall be conclusive evidence in the hands of (ivory bona lido holder, whether by assignment, pledge or otherwise, as against, the person or corporation issuing the same, that the cotton or other things llave been actually received for transportation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilbour v. Hegler
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.