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157 U.S. 124 · 1895
Citation profile
179 federal appellate · 134 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 493 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc. (1960), Knowlton v. Moore (1900)
179 federal appellate · 134 district · 18 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 Howard v. Stillwell Bierce Manuf'G Co · The Edwin Morrison Bradley Fertilizer Co v. Lavender · Work v. Leathers · Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co. v. Boston Marine Insurance
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 493 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In every contract for the carriage of goods by sea, unless otherwise expressly stipulated, there is a warranty on the part ’of the shipowner that the ship is seaworthy at the time of beginning her voyage, and not merely that he does not know her to be unseaworthy, or that he has used his best efforts to make her seaworthy. The warranty is absolute that the ship is, or shall be, in fact seaworthy at that time, and does not depend on his knowledge or ignorance, his care or negligence.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In our opinion the shipowner's undertaking is not merely that he will do and has done his best to make the ship fit, but that the ship is really fit to undergo the perils of the sea and other incidental risks to which she must be exposed in the course of the voyage; and, this being so, that undertaking la not discharged because the want of fitness is the result of latent defects.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Ninfa · The Indrapura““ ‘The ship must be fit and competent for the sort of cargo and the particular service in which she is engaged. If there should be a latent defect in the vessel, unknown to the owner and not discoverable upon examination, yet the better opinion is that the owner must answer for the damage caused by the defect. 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, 205.””
2 later decisions 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.