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581 F.2d 268 · 1978

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
July 2012
most recently cited

12 federal appellate · 4 district ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Henley Drilling Co. v. McGee (1994), Mitsui & Co. v. American Export Lines, Inc. (1981)

12 federal appellate · 4 district ·

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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 Patterson v. United States · Liverpool & Great Western Steam Co. v. Phenix Insurance · Robert Herd Company v. Krawill Machinery Corporation · Leather's Best, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross v. S.S. Mormaclynx, Defendants-Appellants-Appellees · United States v. Atlantic Mutual Insurance

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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Gilmore & Black, supra, at 147. Assuming for the argument that the parties herein could by agreement restore life to Harter, there is nothing in the record to indicate that they intended to do so. Indeed, the evidence is clear that the parties did not so intend. 26 As set out above, the DFRs state that they are to be governed by: 27 The Hague Rules contained in the international convention for the unification of certain rules relating to bills of lading, dated Brussels the 25th August, 1924 as enacted in the country of shipment.... 28 The district court held that the language”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “in this section (4(5)) is ambiguous as it is not clear whether both terms are applicable to goods shipped in packages.' Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, 70th Cong., 1st Sess. 29 (Dec. 22, 1927).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “in open view, unboxed, [which] was not wrapped or crated ... was not a package as defined by COGSA.”
    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.