The Lowther Castle’s Empirical Analysis
195 F. 604 · 1912
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2008
4 federal appellate · 10 district ·
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 McConnochie v. Kerr · Long v. The Tampico · The Plymouth Rock · Oteri v. New Orleans · Compagnie Commerciale de Transport a Vapeur Francaise v. Charente Steamship 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A salvage service is a service which is voluntarily rendered to a vessel needing assistance, and is designed to relieve lier from some distress or danger, either present or to he reasonably apprehended. A towage, service is one which is rendered for the mere purpose of expediting her voyage, without reference to any circumstance of danger.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A ‘salvage service’ is a service whicli is voluntarily rendered to a vessel, needing assistance, and is designed to relieve ber from some distress or danger, either present or to be reasonably apprehended. « * * Assisting a vessel ‘in a, situation of actual apprehension, though not of actual danger,’ is salvage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Edilio
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.