Schoonmaker v. Gilmore’s Empirical Analysis
102 U.S. 118 · 1880
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 7 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. (1959), Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen (1917)
20 federal appellate · 7 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 The Moses Taylor
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That there always has been a remedy at common law for damages by collision at sea cannot be denied.””
5 later decisions 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.