Cope v. Vallette Dry-Dock’s Empirical Analysis
10 F. 142 · 1882
Citation profile
4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1947
4 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.
Relationships
Relies on Insurance Company v. Dunham · Ex parte Easton · Cope v. Vallette Dry-Dock Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The ship and all things pertaining to it are, in the law of admiralty, so far as moneyed responsibility is concerned, clothed with personality. Those who repair her, or loan money upon her, or equip or man her, or who work for her, those who are injured by her, and those who save her, may look to her for judgment as the debtor. The reason for this is that ships are often distant far from home and their owners, and commerce was vastly facilitated, and the interest of all concerned therein vastly promoted, by their being endowed by law with the attributes or faculties of a personal debtor. This reason is the origin of the whole doctrine of maritime liens; and by this reason maritime liens are to be ascertained and measured and ranked.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. The Dora
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.