The Frolic’s Empirical Analysis
148 F. 921 · 1906
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018
7 federal appellate · 4 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 United States v. Stowell · Dobbins's Distillery v. United States · United States v. George Dewey U S No 309 George Dewey U S · United States v. One Black Horse · United States v. Two Hundred & Twenty Patented Machines
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he word 'appurtenances' must not be construed with a mere reference to the abstract naked idea of a ship, for that which would be an incumbrance to a ship one way employed would be an indispensable equipment in another; and it would be a preposterous abuse to consider them alike in such different positions. You must look to the relation they bear to the actual service of the vessel”
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.