Dana’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 4 district ·

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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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Salvage services, on the long and dangerous coast which stretches from the Delaware capes to Florida, ought to be more liberally rewarded than on other coasts. It is not a seaboard studded with harbors and prosperous commercial cities and towns from which salvors may run out short distances along shore, and render successful services in a few hours. It is a long coast, dangerous and barren, constantly swept by strong winds and currents; where the ordinary tide varies only three feet; and on which wrecking enterprises cannot be successfully accomplished by individual exertions and capital. Wrecking service here can only be successfully performed by organized capital, enterprise, and skill; by capital, skill, and enterprise, so organized as to be capable of maintaining a constant provision of experienced mariners, powerful wrecking vessels, and ample wrecking implements and material, ready at all hours for immediate service. The business cannot sustain itself in the hands of reputable men and companies, unless the admiralty courts shall give exceptionally liberal rewards in all cases of meritorious and successful service on this seaboard. And surely it is in the interest of commerce to sustain the wreck-in g'business in these waters and latitudes. For these reasons I repeat, salvors on this coast must be more liberally dealt with by the admiralty courts than on other coasts.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Baker Salvage Co. v. The Taylor Dickson