Simpson v. Dollar’s Empirical Analysis
109 F. 814 · 1901
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1949
5 federal appellate ·
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 Hall v. The Bay of Naples · The Trefusis · Commercial Towboat Co. v. The George W. Clyde · Marcussen v. Saunders
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No exact criterion can be found for estimating the amount of salvage in any case. The judgments of courts must necessarily differ as to the precise amount to be allowed under given circumstances. Where there has been no mistake in fact, or application of an unwarranted rule of compensation in arriving at the award, and the amount allowed cannot be clearly seen to be inappropriate, tbe courts on appeal have been reluctant to disturb the decision of the trial court. The Bay of Naples, 1 C. C. A. 81 , 48 Fed. 787 ; The Amity, 16 C. C. A. 170 , 69 Fed. 110 ; The George W. Clyde, 30 C. C. A. 292 , 86 Fed. 665 ; The Trefusis, 39 C. C. A. 96 , 98 Fed. 314 ; The Emulous, 1 Sumn. 214 , Fed. Cas. No. 4,480.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Flottbek · The Celtic Chief
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.