Sinclair Refining Co. v. The Morania Dolphin’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2016
1 federal appellate ·
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 Pennsylvania · Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co. v. Boston Marine Insurance · The Cayuga · Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. v. Smith · City of Paris
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“could not have contributed to the occurrence.”
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.