Roberts v. Bark Windermere’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 13 district ·

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

1. ““My attention has been called to a decision of Judge Dyer that the storage of the sails of a vessel on the land is not a maritime service, for which a suit in the admiralty will lie. He comments on, and disapproves of, the opinion of Mr. Benedict, cited above from his work on Admiralty, to the effect that the stevedore’s service is maritime; and also his opinion that the storage of the sails is a maritime service. "The authorities, however, which were cited in Hubbard v. Roach, and on which the decision is expressly put, very imperfectly represent the present state of this question; and for the reasons given above I am unable to concur in the reasoning of the learned judge so far as it affects the question now before this court.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davidson v. Plummer

2. ““As to contracts it has been equally well settled that the English rule, which concedes jurisdiction, with a few exceptions, only to contracts made upon the sea, and to be executed thereon, (making locality the test,) is entirely inadmissible, and that the true criterion is the nature and subject-matter of the contract; as whether it was a maritime contract, having reference to maritime service or maritime transactions.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. The Hattie M. Bain