McCahan Sugar Refining Company v. The Steamship Wildcroft’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1989 · most notably La Bourgogne (1908), George Deslions v. La Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on International Navigation Company v. Farr Bailey Manufacturing Company · The Carib Prince · Joseph Martin v. Steamship Southwark
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the ship was seaworthy in all respects at the beginning of the voyage, and it was a careless and recent opening of the valve or valves, shortly before the fresh water was let in, which resulted in the damage complained of.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Indien
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.