The S. L. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
118 F. 945 · 1902
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2006
9 federal appellate · 5 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 Robert Vandewater v. Edward Mills · the Schooner Freeman v. Alvah Buckingham · The Corsair · the Lady Franklin · Newell v. Norton and Ship
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o lien arises in admiralty except in connection with some visible occurrence relating to the vessel or cargo.”
4 later decisions 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.