The Pokanoket’s Empirical Analysis
156 F. 241 · 1907
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2017
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Edwards v. Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad · The Rescue
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the absence of proof of any settled usage or custom of the port, an engineer employed for a vessel at a certain rate of wages per month, without any specified term of service, may be discharged at any time, either during or at the end of a month, without previous notice, and can recover wages only for the time actually served.””
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.