The Delaware’s Empirical Analysis
81 U.S. 579 · 1871
Citation profile
86 federal appellate · 49 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 224 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2000 · most notably Seitz v. Brewers' Refrigerating Machine Co. (1891), Grace v. American Central Insurance (1883)
86 federal appellate · 49 district · 17 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 Ruse v. . the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company · Willard v. Presbury · Halsey v. Brown · Lienan v. Lincoln
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 224 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * it is also admissible in certain cases, for the purpose of annexing incidents to the contract in matters upon which the contract is silent, but it is never admitted to make a contract or to add a new element to the terms of a contract previously made by the parties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““¡Shipowners, as carriers of merchandise, contract for the safe custody, due transport, and right delivery of the goods; and the shipper, consignee, or owner of the cargo contracts to pay the freight and charges; and by the maritime law, as expounded by the decisions of this court, tlie obligations of rho shipowner and the shipper arc reciprocal; and it is equally well settled that the maritime law creates reciprocal liens for the enforcement of those obligations, unless the lien is waived by some express stipulation, or is displaced by some inconsistent and irreconcilable provision in the charter party or bill of lading.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wellman v. Morse““Text-writers mention the bill of lading as an example of an instrument wbieb partakes of a twofold character, and such commentators agree that the instrument may, as between the carrier and the shipper, be contradicted and explained in its recital that the goods were in good order and well conditioned, by showing that their internal state and condition was bad, or not such as is represented in the instrument, and in like manner in respect to any other fact which it erroneously recites, but in all other respects it is to be treated like other written contracts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Isla de Panay
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.