Joseph Martin v. Steamship Southwark’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 10 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Rolph Navigation & Coal Co. v. Kohilas (1924), Charles Pfizer & Co. v. Convoy S. S. Co. (1924)
17 federal appellate · 10 district · 15 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 The Silvia · The Caledonia · The Delaware · International Navigation Company v. Farr Bailey Manufacturing Company · The Edwin Morrison Bradley Fertilizer Co v. Lavender
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test is * * * whether the vessel is reasonably fit to carry the cargo which she has undertaken to transport.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The F. & T. Lupton · The Jeannie““As seaworthiness depends not only upon the vessel being staunch and fit to meet the perils of the sea, but upon its character in reference to the particular cargo to be transported, it follows that the vessel must be able to transport the cargo which it is held out as fit to carry or it is not seaworthy in that respect.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Jeannie“The sufficiency of the vessel in materials, construction, equipment, officers, men and outfit for the trade or service in which it is employed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Newport
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.