The Penobscott’s Empirical Analysis
106 F. 419 · 1901
Citation profile
3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 1922
3 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are of opinion that the services rendered by the Wilmington were meritorious, and that a fair and just compensation should be allowed for the same. The Wilmington promptly responded to the signal of distress, and willingly rendered the necessary assistance to the disabled schooner, and her conduct, under the circumstances, was most commendable. The steamboat was quickly moved to the sand shoals near the mouth of the Oape Fear river, where the schooner was aground, and during the time she was engaged in the salving work she was properly and skillfully handled. But we do not find that there was any great risk to the property used by the salvors, nor to the lives of those engaged in the work. The schooner was, doubtless, in great danger at the time the Wilmington reached her, and the cargo would probably have been lost, or greatly damaged, but for the timely assistance rendered by the latter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Nisseqogue
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.