Flat-Top Fuel Co. v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
85 F.2d 39 · 1936
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2007
8 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Earle & Stoddart, Inc. v. Ellerman's Wilson Line, Ltd. · The Fri · The G. R. Crowe · The Cullen No. 32 · The Kathryn B. Guinan
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“already has a contract of carriage with the charterer ... it cannot reasonably be supposed that he means to contract with the shipowner for the same carriage. It is equally unlikely that the shipowner, having already contracted with the charterer, wishes to make an additional contract with the subcharterer, since he will earn no additional freight thereby from the latter.”
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.