The J. S. Warden’s Empirical Analysis
175 F. 314 · 1910
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1998 · most notably McDermott International, Inc. v. Wilander (1991), Mahramas v. American Export Isbrandtsen Lines, Inc. (1973)
14 federal appellate · 8 district · 1 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 Saylor v. Taylor · The Minna · Pond v. The Hattie Thomas · Lawrence v. The W. F. Brown · The Alanson Sumner
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As I can see in principle no reason why there should be an artificial limitation of rights to those engaged in the navigation of the ship, to the exclusion of others who equally further the purposes of her voyage, . . . I shall decide that the libelant has a lien for his wages as bartender.”
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.