Propeller Niagara v. Cordes’s Empirical Analysis
62 U.S. 7 · 1858
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 38 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. (1960), Liverpool & Great Western Steam Co. v. Phenix Insurance (1889)
53 federal appellate · 38 district · 10 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 Tristram Clark v. Nathaniel Barnwell · Abraham Rich v. Charles Lambert · Parsons v. Hardy · Williams v. Grant
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[When the carrier] receives the goods, it is his duty to take all possible care of them in their passage, make due transport and safe and right delivery of them at the place and time agreed upon; ---- After having set sail, he must proceed on the voyage, in the direct, shortest, and usual route, to the port of delivery, without unnecessary deviation, unless there has been an express contract as to the course to be pursued; and where the vessel is destined for several ports and places, the master should proceed to them in the order in which they are usually visited, or that designed by the contract, ____”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A common carrier is one who undertakes for hire to transport the goods of those who may choose to employ him from place to place.””
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.