The Corsair Barton v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 18 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1990 · most notably The Osceola (1903), The Vlbert Dumois (1900)
8 federal appellate · 18 district · 11 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 The Harrisburg · The "Sabine" · Insurance Company v. Brame · Ex parte Gordon · Newell v. Norton and Ship
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As we are to look, then, to the local law in this instance for the right to take cognizance of this class of cases, wo are bound to inquire whether the local law gives a lien upon the offending thing. * * * The Louisiana act declares, in substance, that the right of action for every act of negligence which causes damage to another shall survive, in case of death, in favor of the minor children or widow of the deceased; and, in default of these, in favor of the surviving father and mother, and that such survivors may also recover the damages sustained by them by the death of the parent, child, husband or wife. Evidently nothing more is here contemplated than an ordinary action according' to the course of Hie law as it is administered in Louisiana. There is ño intimation of a lien or privilege upon the offending thing, which, as we have already held, is necessary to give a court of admiralty jurisdiction to proceed in rem.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. The Oregon““Had she suffered bodily wounds and bruises, from the result of which she lingered and ultimately died; it is possible that her sufferings during her illness would give a separate cause of action; but the very fact that she died by drowning indicates that her sufferings must have been brief, and, in • law, a mere incident to her death.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Fike v. Peters““While these cases turn upon the construction of the English acts, the courts have been guided in such construction by principles which are of general application both in this country and in England.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. The Oregon
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.