Leathers v. Blessing’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

66 federal appellate · 37 district · 16 state decisions

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 180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The only question raised By the appellants is as to whether the suit was one of admiralty jurisdiction in the District Court. They maintain that juris-die: ion of the case belonged exclusively to a court of common law. Attention is directed to the facts that the Circuit Court did not find that the lihelant was an officer, seaman, passenger, or freighter, or that he had any connection with the vessel, or any business upon her or about her, except that when he went on board of her he was expecting a consignment of cotton seed by her, and went on board to ascertain whether it had arrived, and that the vessel had fully completed her voyage and was securely moored at the wharf at the time the accident occurred. It is urged that the case is one of an injury received by a person not connected with the vessel or her navigation, through the carelessness or neglect of another person, and that the fact that the person guilty of negligence was, at the time, in control of a vessel which had been previously engaged in navigating) waters within the jurisdiction of the admiralty courts of the United States cannot give jurisdiction to such courts. Although a suit might have been brought in, a common-law court for the cause of action sued on here, the District Court, sitting in admiralty, had jurisdiction of this suit. The vessel was water-borne in the Mississippi river at the time, laden with an undischarged cargo, having just arrived with it from a voyage. The findings sufficiently show tha”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Anderson v. E. B. Ward · Pacific Mail S. S. Co. v. Schmidt

2. ““This makes the case one of invitation to the libelant to go on board in the •transaction of business with the master and officers of the vessel, recognized ■by them as proper business to be transacted by him with them on board of the vessel at the time and place in question. Under such circumstances, the relation of the master, and of his co-owner, through him, to the libelant, was such as to create a duty on them to see that the libelant was not injured by the negligence of the'master.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Watts v. Jensen · Pioneer S. S. Co. v. McCann

3. “wrongs suffered in consequence of the negligence or malfeasance of others, where the remedy at common law is by an action on the case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. American Telephone & Telegraph Company v. Cape Fear