The Shawmut’s Empirical Analysis
155 F. 476 · 1907
Citation profile
6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2006
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 Post v. Jones · The Myrtle Tunnel · The Flora Rodgers
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Prima facie a vessel found at sea in a situation of peril, with no one' aboard of her, is a derelict; but where the master and crew leave such vessel temporarily, without any intention of final abandonment, for the purpose of obtaining assistance, and with the intent to return and resume possession, she is not technically a derelict. * * * She was what may be called a quasi derelict.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Alcazar
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.