The Oceano’s Empirical Analysis
148 F. 131 · 1906
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2003 · most notably Osaka Shosen Kaisha v. Pacific Export Lumber Co. (1923), Krauss Bros. Lumber v. Dimon Steamship Corp. (1933)
16 federal appellate · 6 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 Director · George D. Emery Co. v. Tweedie Trading Co. · Charleston Bridge Co. v. The John C. Sweeney
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]s soon as the performance of the contract is commenced a lien exists on the vessel in favor of the shipper or charterer, and a suit in rem may be maintained against the same for any liability of the master or owner arising on or growing out of such contract.”
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.