Ross v. Bourne’s Empirical Analysis
14 F. 858 · 1883
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1942
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
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 STANTON v. Embrey, Administrator · Merrill v. New England Mutual Life Insurance · Eddy v. O'Hara · Winthrop v. Carlton · McCarty v. Steam-Propeller City of New Bedford
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tluit such a debt (for seaman’s wages) is not exempt from attachment at common law seems to be the law of Massachusetts, though the point lias never been directly adjudged. At least, it would seem to bo clear that a judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction charging tho trustee, and a payment by him under the judgment, would be a defense, .pro tanto, in a court of admiralty, as in any other court, to a suit by a seaman for his wages, whether against the ship and freight, or the owner and master in personam.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““I am aware of no law of congress, or rule or practice in admiralty, which requires this court to hang- up its decree in this case until the attachment suit is disposed of. Ordinarily the sailor’s only means of subsistence on shore are his wages earned at sea. If these may be stopped by an attachment snit tlie instant the ship is moored to the wharf, a new hardship is added to a vocation already subject to its full share of the ills of life.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. The Queen“"No one would for a moment contend that the attachment suit should have the effect to deprive the seaman of his lien on the vessel and freight.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Amelia
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.