The Brig Alerta v. Moran’s Empirical Analysis
13 U.S. 359 · 1815
Citation profile
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How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1917
1 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.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Salvage is founded on the equity of remunerating private and individual services performed in saving in whole or in part a ship or its cargo from impending peril, or recovering them after actual loss. It is a compensation for actual services rendered to the property charged with it, and is allowed for meritorious conduct ot' the salvor, and in consideration of a benefit conferred upon the person'whose property he has saved. A claim for salvage rests on the principle that, unless the property be in fact saved by those who claim the compensation, it cannot he allowed, however benevolent their intention and however heroic their conduct.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Job H. Jackson
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.