The Prussia’s Empirical Analysis
88 F. 531 · 1898
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1957
2 federal appellate ·
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 Mynard v. Syracuse, Binghamton & New York Railroad · Nelson v. Woodruff · Bissell v. . New York Central Railroad Company · Cragin v. . N.Y.C.R.R. Co. · Evans v. Fitchburg Railroad
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Dressed-Meat Clause. “It is expressly agreed that the goods named herein are shipped and carried at the sole risk of the shippers or owners thereof, and that, the shipowners shall in no case be responsible for any loss or damage thereof, or in any wise relating thereto, whether such loss or damage arise from defect or insufficiency, either before or after shipment, in the hull of the said steamer, or in her machinery, boilers, or refrigerating chambers machinery, or in any part of the refrigerating apparatus, or in any material, or the supply or use thereof, used in the process of refrigeration, and whether such loss or damage, however arising, be caused by the negligence, default, error in judgment, of the pilot, master, officers, engineers, mariners, refrigerating engineers, or other servants of the shipowners, or persons for whom they are responsible, or by negligence in stowage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Prussia
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.