Oliver and Daniel Garrison v. The Memphis Insurance Company’s Empirical Analysis
60 U.S. 312 · 1856
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 22 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2017 · most notably United States v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1949), Phœnix Insurance v. Erie & Western Transportation Co. (1886)
5 federal appellate · 22 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 The New Jersey Steam Navigation Company v. The Merchants' Bank of Boston · The Propeller Monticello v. Gilbert Mollison · Hale v. New-Jersey Steam Navigation 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Tliose “risks arising from natural accidents peculiar to the river, which do not happen by the intervention of man, nor are to be prevented by human prudence.” Garrison v. Memphis Ins. Co., 19 How. 312 , 15 L. Ed. 656 .”
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.