The Cyclone’s Empirical Analysis
16 F. 486 · 1883
Citation profile
5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1908
5 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 Murphy v. Suliote · New York Harbor & Tow-Boat Co. v. Grain Elevators America & Egypt · Corwin v. Barge Jonathan Chase · The B. C. Terry
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There are two circumstances in the present case which are well-recognized grounds for enhancing salvage reward: First, the extremity of the danger of the Cyclone, and the necessity of immediate relief; and, second, the personal hazard which attended the service, owing to the inflammable and explosive character of the cargo in her hold, and its exposed condition, the hatches being all open.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Price v. The Elmbank
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.