The Keokuk’s Empirical Analysis
76 U.S. 517 · 1869
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 23 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2002 · most notably V New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company and the Steam Tug Charles E Matthews John D Daily et al. (1909), Osaka Shosen Kaisha v. Pacific Export Lumber Co. (1923)
16 federal appellate · 23 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a principle of maritime law that the owner of the cargo has a lien, on the vessel for any injury he may sustain by the fault of the vessel or the master; but the law creates no lien on a vessel as a'security for theperformanee of a contract to transport a cargo until some lawful contract of affreightment is made, and the cargo to which it relates- has been delivered to the custody of the master, or some one authorized to receive it.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In this case the bill of lading acknowledges the receipt of so much flour, and is prima facie evidence of the fact. It is, however, not conclusive on the point,, but may be contradicted by oral testimony. The doctrine that the obligation between ship and cargo is mutual and reciprocal, and does not attach until the cargo is on board, or in the custody of the master, has been so often discussed, and so long settled, that it would be useless labor to restate it, or the principles which lie at its foundation.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the law creates no lien on a vessel as a security for the performance of a contract to transport cargo, until some lawful contract of affreightment is made, and the cargo shipped under it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.