Scarff v. . Metcalf’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 12 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1978 · most notably The Osceola (1903), Cortes v. Baltimore Insular Line, Inc. (1932)
15 federal appellate · 12 district · 34 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 Thorp v. Hammond · MacY v. . Wheeler · Taggard v. Loring · Reynolds v. Toppan · Holt v. Cummings
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The master’s authority is quite despotic and sometimes roughly exercised, and the conveniences of a ship out upon the ocean are necessarily narrow and limited. That which on land would be contributory negligence the maritime law scarcely recognizes and readily excuses (The City of Alexandria, 17 Fed. 390 , 395), and in many ways throws its protection around the seaman.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Panama R. v. Johnson
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.