The "Sabine"’s Empirical Analysis
101 U.S. 384 · 1879
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 44 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 237 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2021 · most notably North Pacific Steamship Co. v. Hall Bros. Marine Railway & Shipbuilding Co. (1919), Archawski v. Hanioti (1956)
69 federal appellate · 44 district · 5 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 The Blackwall · The Camanche · National Bank v. United States
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 237 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Three elements are necessary to a valid salvage claim: 1. A marine peril. 2. Service voluntarily rendered when not required as an existing duty or from a special contract. 3. Success in whole or in part, or that the service rendered contributed to such success.””
23 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the rule is that nothing short of a contract to pay a given sum for the services to be rendered, or a binding engagement to pay at all events, whether successful or unsuccessful in the enterprise, will operate as a bar to a meritorious claim for salvage.”
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.