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206 F.2d 55 · 1953
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1999
5 federal appellate · 1 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 Commercial Molasses Corp. v. New York Tank Barge Corp. · Sacramento Nav Co v. Salz · Compania de Navegacion Interior, S. A. v. Fireman's Fund Insurance · The Persiana · Philippine Sugar Centrals Agency v. Kokusai Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ -* * •*, Libellant here states as the rule of the Wash Gray case that a tower cannot, by contract that towage is to be at the risk of the tow, relieve itself from liability for damage to the tow caused by its negligence in towing. But assuming this is a correct statement of legal principle, it does not cover this case. It applies to the determination of rights and duties between tug and tow where these units of a flotilla represent separate interests. It has nothing to do with the responsibility of a private carrier to a shipper where the carrier alone controls the entire means of transportation, whether a single vessel or tug and tow.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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