Smith v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
66 F. 344 · 1895
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1951
1 federal appellate · 5 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The 24-hour clause of the bill of lading, while it requires the consignee to be ready to receive the cargo at the expiration of that time after notice, and casts upon him any loss of time arising from delay in pointing out the place of discharge after the notice, does not relieve the vessel from herself being ready to deliver at the selected berth, provided it is safe and can be safely reached. Notice imposes on the master the duty to bring his vessel to the berth given her, and for any delay in so doing, not arising from the unsuitableness of the berth, or its approaches, or fault of the consignee, he is responsible, and must bear the loss.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carroll v. Holway
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.