The Satellite’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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

1. ““The libel of F. A. Buck & Oo. is for the price of liquors and supplies for a bar which was conducted on board the Robert Dollar for the profit of the charterer. It is always optional with the owner of a vessel whether to conduct a bar on board or not, and, as it is not essential to the navigation of the vessel, or to the safety and comfort of passengers, I cannot regard bar supplies as ‘necessaries’ in the sense in which that word is used in the twelfth admiralty rule. Under that rule, materialmen cannot sue in rem for supplies furnished, other than necessaries.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Sterling

2. ““If passengers are carried, whatever may be reasonably supposed to meet the ordinary wants of the class of passengers expected must * * * be necessaries, whether strictly essential to their safety and comfort or not.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Penn