Baker Oil Tools, Inc. v. Delta Steamship Lines, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
562 F.2d 938 · 1977
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Stevenson Co Inc v. Bags of Flour Adm Milling Co Inc (1980), Spartus Corporation v. S/s Yafo Zim Israel Navigation Company Ltd (1979)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Leather's Best, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross v. S.S. Mormaclynx, Defendants-Appellants-Appellees · David Crystal, Inc. v. Cunard Steam-Ship Co. · Rashad v. Walsh · North American Smelting Co. v. Moller S. S. Co.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . the carrier's responsibility to the shipper,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the duties, responsibilities and liabilities of the ship or carrier prior to the time when the goods are loaded on or after the time they are discharged from the ship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the custodial responsibilities that devolve upon a common law bailee.”
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.