Franklin Moore George Foot and George Bagley v. The American Transportation Company’s Empirical Analysis
65 U.S. 1 · 1860
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 15 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably The New York (1899), La Bourgogne (1908)
16 federal appellate · 15 district · 5 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 The Propeller Genesee Chief Pierce Kelsey Cheney Hunter Swan Clark Strong v. Fitzhugh Littlejohn Peck · The New Jersey Steam Navigation Company v. The Merchants' Bank of Boston · Nathaniel Waring v. Thomas Clarke · The United States v. Lawrence Coombs · The Steam-Boat Thomas Jefferson
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The act was designed to promote the building of ships and to encourage persons engaged in the business of navigation.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"No owner of a vessel shall be liable for, or make good to any person any loss or damage which may happen to any merchandise whatsoever, which shall be shipped, taken in, or put on hoard of any such vessel, by reason or by means of any lire happening to or on board the vessel unless such lire is caused by the design or neglect of such owner.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This word ‘used’ means, in the connection found, ‘employed,’ and doubtless, in the mind of Congress, was intended to refer to vessels solely employed in river or inland navigation.””
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.