Pacific Packing & Navigation Co. v. Fielding’s Empirical Analysis
136 F. 577 · 1905
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2007
12 federal appellate · 2 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 Lake Shore Ry Co v. Prentice · The Amiable Nancy · Denver & Rio Grande Railway v. Harris · Keene v. Lizardi
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.
““It is contended that this principle is applicable to the master of a ship at sea, who is for the time being in the sole and absolute command of the ship and of everybody in it; but wo do not feel justified in so extending it, especially in view of the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of The Amiable Nancy, 3 Wheat. 546 , 4 L. jSd. 456, the doctrine ^of which case was expressly approved in Lake Shore, etc., Railway Company v. Prentice.””
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.