The Ninfa’s Empirical Analysis
156 F. 512 · 1907
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1933
4 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 The Silvia · The Caledonia · The Delaware · International Navigation Company v. Farr Bailey Manufacturing Company · The Edwin Morrison Bradley Fertilizer Co v. Lavender
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is an implied warranty in the contract that the ship be sound for the voyage, and the owner, like a common carrier, is an insurer against everything but the excepted perils.” 3 Kent's Com. 205.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Indrapura““Plainly, the main purposes of the act were to relieve the shipowner from liability for latent defects, not discoverable by the utmost care and diligence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.