The Oceanica’s Empirical Analysis
170 F. 893 · 1909
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1982 · most notably Bisso v. Inland Waterways Corp. (1955), Boston Metals Company the St Francis v. The S/s Winding Gulf (1955)
14 federal appellate · 7 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 Railroad Company v. Lockwood · The New Jersey Steam Navigation Company v. The Merchants' Bank of Boston · The China · The Barnstable · Homer Ramsdell Transportation Company v. La Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The tow assumed no risks, and releases the tug from liability for her own negligence resulting in damage to the tow.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The ‘claim’ is in either case against the company, though the suit may be against its property.”
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.