Margate Shipping Company v. M/v Ja Orgeron United States’s Empirical Analysis
143 F.3d 976 · 1998
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2016
8 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 The Blackwall · The "Sabine" · Atlantic Mutual Insurance v. Commissioner · William Mason v. Blaireau · Platoro Ltd. v. Unidentified Remains of a Vessel, Her Cargo, Apparel, Tackle, & Furniture, in a Cause of Salvage, Civil & Maritime
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The labor expended by the salvors in rendering the salvage service. 2. The promptitude, skill, and energy displayed in rendering the service and saving the property. 3. The value of the property employed by the salvors in rendering the service, and the danger to which such property was exposed. 4. The risk incurred by the salvors in securing the property from the impending peril. 5. The value of the property saved. 6. The degree of danger from which the property was rescued.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he purpose of salvage awards is to encourage rescues in settings of high transaction costs by simulating the conditions and outcomes of a competitive market.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he law of salvage aims to create a post-hoc solution that will induce the parties to save the ship without first agreeing on terms.”
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.