Harrison v. Hughes’s Empirical Analysis
125 F. 860 · 1903
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1976
6 federal appellate · 7 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 John G. Stevens · The China · The Barnstable · Homer Ramsdell Transportation Company v. La Compagnie Generale Transatlantique · Casement v. Brown
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““UNITED STATES OP AMERICA, ss: THE PRESIDENT OP THE-UNITED STATES OP AMERICA, United States Cir- | cuit Court of | To the Honorable tbe Judges of the District Court of Appeals. | the United States for the District of Delaware. Third Circuit. | GREETING: Whereas, lately in the District Court of the United States for the District of Delaware, before you, or some of you, in a cause between Albert Harrison, Master of the British Steamship ‘Glenochil,’ Appellant and Eugene Hughes, James Hughes, Charles Hughes and Anson M. Bangs, co-partners trading as Hughes Brothers and Bangs, Appellees, wherein the decree of the said District Court entered in said cause is in, the following words, viz.:— ‘And now, to wit, this seventh day of February, A. D. 1903, the above cause having been heard upon pleadings and proofs, and the argument of the Proe- tors for the respective parties having been had, and the opinion of the Court having been filed directing that the Master of the Steamship Gienochil, the libelant, recover one-half of the damages and costs, and the Commissioner' to assess the damages having filed his report, and the exceptions thereto having been disposed of by the court, it is now ordered, adjudged and decreed by the' court that the libelant recover of and from the respondents, Eugene Hughes,, .Tames Hughes, Charles Hughes and Anson M. Bangs, co-partners trading as , 1 lughes Brothers and Bangs, and the American Surety Company of New York, their stipulators, the sum of thirty six”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harrison v. Hughes“. . . It is admitted that, at common law, no action can be maintained against the owner of a vessel, for the fault of a compulsorily taken pilot, as, in such case, the pilot is in no sense the agent or servant of the owner; but, although the same doctrine holds in England, both at common law and in admiralty, a different view of the liability of the ship is taken in admiralty cases in this country. The China v. Walsh, 7 Wall. 53, 19 L.Ed. 67 . . . . The theory of the admiralty law in this country in such cases, is that the collision impressed upon the wrongdoing vessel a maritime lien, which the vessel carries with it into whosesoever hands it may come. The vessel is treated, according to this theory, as the guilty thing. It is the res, to which fault is imputable, and which is held to respond in damages. The responsibility of the owners, as owners, and the law of agency, as applicable to the employment of a pilot, do not come into consideration.”
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.