No. 93-1426’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
March 2011
most recently cited
1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Edelman v. Jordan · Hans v. State of Louisiana · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer · Atascadero State Hospital v. Scanlon · Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has no effect on the law of salvage because the law of salvage does not apply to abandoned shipwrecks.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“which have been deserted and to which the owner has relin quished ownership rights with no retention”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he law of salvage ... shall not apply to abandoned shipwrecks. ...,”
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.