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124 F. 905 · 1903
Citation profile
6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1969
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 Flottbek · Commercial Towboat Co. v. The George W. Clyde · Baker Salvage Co. v. The Excelsior
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any service or assistance applied for or received by a vessel in peril or distress which in any measure conduces to its safety is in the nature of salvage service.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is the policy of the maritime law to encourage spontaneous services rendered in going to the aid of a ship in distress by giving some remuneration beyond the value of the work actually done, as an encouragement to induce the salvor and future salvors to incur risk in saving life and property; but this extra remuneration is always proportioned, * * * and it is never the policy of the law, nor in accordance with justice, to allow a situation created by calamity to be converted into an opportunity for extortion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Alcazar
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.