John Brittan v. William a Barnaby’s Empirical Analysis
62 U.S. 527 · 1858
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 15 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2004 · most notably The Main v. Williams (1894), Alcoa Ss Co v. United States (1949)
10 federal appellate · 15 district · 3 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 Jones v. Fales · President of Springfield Bank v. Merrick · Blydenburgh v. Cotheal
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he word freight, when not used in a sense to imply the burden or loading of the ship, or the cargo which she has on board, is the hire agreed upon between the owner or master for the carriage of goods from one port or place to another.” Brittan v. Barnaby, 62 U.S. (21 How.) 527, 533, 16 L.Ed. 177 (1858). 9 . Novorossiysk also argued on appeal that it had a lien on the cargo for the Westway Freight pursuant to the "all cargoes”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“• “But, when, clone in either, they must he made in words sufficiently intelligible to indicate an agreement that the operation.of the law merchant in respect to ■those instruments is not to prevail; and the stipulation must be in writing, and he signed hy the parties, before it can he received as an auxiliary to explain how the contract is to be performed.””
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.