The Troop’s Empirical Analysis
118 F. 769 · 1902
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019
6 federal appellate · 6 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.
Relationships
Relies on The Belgenland · Panama Co v. Napier Shipping Co · Whitney v. Olsen · Bolden v. Jensen · The Iroquois
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I hold that no liability, except for expenses and wages, attaches to the ship or owners for a personal injury to a seaman happening while he is in the service of a British ship, in consequence of the negligence of the captain....” Id. at 770 . Damages were available based on the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“failure to observe the dictates of humanity”
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.