Harden v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1823
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably Chandris, Inc. v. Latsis (1995), Stewart v. Dutra Construction Co. (2005)
35 federal appellate · 6 district · 9 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.
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he master will watch over their health with vigilance and fidelity[,] . . . tak[ing] the best methods . . . to prevent diseases, [and] to ensure a speedy recovery from them.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“emphatically the wards of the admiralty.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“to engage in perilous voyages with more promptitude, and at lower wages.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.