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105 U.S. 630 · 1881
Citation profile
77 federal appellate · 56 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 218 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co. v. Flint (1927), The Conqueror (1897)
77 federal appellate · 56 district · 13 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 Schooner Catharine v. Noah Dickinson · Hall Long v. The Railroad Companies · Cornelius Comegys and Andrew Pettit v. Ambrose Vasse · The Cayuga
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 218 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tie rules of law governing this question are well settled, and the only difficulty is in applying them to the peculiar facts of the case. In order to make full compensation and indemnity for what has been lost by the collision, restitutio in integrum, the owners of the injured vessel are entitled to recover for the loss of her use while -laid up for repairs. When there is a market price for such use, that price is the test of the sum to he recovered. When there is no market price, evidence of the profits that she would have earned, if not disabled, is competent; but from the gross freight must he deducted so much as would in ordinary cases be disbursed on account of her expenses in earning it. In no event can more than the net profits be recovered by way of damages.””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The mere payment of a loss by the insurer does not, indeed, afford any defense, in whole or in part, to a person whose fault has been the cause of the loss, in a suit brought against, the latter by the assured. But upon familiar principles, often recognized by this court, the insurer acquires by such payment a corresponding right in any damages to be recovered by the assured against the wrongdoer, or other party responsible for the' loss. * * v»”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““That valuation is conclusive in respect of all rights and obligations arising upon the policy of insurance.””
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.