New York & Liverpool United States Mail Steamship Co. v. Rumball’s Empirical Analysis
62 U.S. 372 · 1858
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 19 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1974 · most notably The Nacoochee (1890), The Elizabeth Jones (1884)
29 federal appellate · 19 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.
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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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“from the time the necessity for precaution begins”
2 later decisions 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.