The Aquitania’s Empirical Analysis
20 F.2d 457 · 1927
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 1999 · most notably Black Diamond Corporation v. Robert Stewart & Sons (1949), Pershing Auto Rentals, Inc. v. Gaffney (1960)
19 federal appellate · 2 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 The Hamilton · Providence Co v. Hill Manuf'G · Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Southern Pacific Co. · Butler v. Boston & Savannah Steamship Co. · Norwich Company v. Wright
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and the whole value of the vessel, and her freight for the voyage, is not sufficient to make compensation to each of them, they shall receive compensation * * * in proportion to their respective losses”
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.