The J. Doherty’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 10 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““There are maritime services which are usually rendered under circumstances which make them so [email protected] to the movement of a vessel, and to the performance of her primary function, as an instrument of commerce, that the admiralty law presumes they are rendered on the credit of the vessel, in the absence of proof to the contrary, and creates a maritime lien in their favor, independently of the cuestión whether it be a domestic vessel or not. Notable examples are the lien ¡'or pilotage services. The lien for seamen’s wages, for towage services, and for salvage services. The reasons for the rule in these cases are obvious, and arise out of the necessities of the situation. * * * The peculiar exigency of the situation in all these cases, supplies the reason for the rule of presumption of lien, as it has been long recognized in the administration of the general admiralty law. The exigency for such services, as are above enumerated, so generally exists that the rule of presumption of lien is sometimes dissociated from the reason upon which it is founded. The service of a diver can be imagined as rendered under circumstances so exigent as to come within the reason of the rule of presumption of lien, as the service may have been necessary to prevent the immediate sinking of a vessel, but the service of the same diver in examining a sunken wreck, or the bottom of a ship lying in port, to discover whether its general condition required that the ship should be docked, would come with”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rupert City · The Penn

2. ““4-ny person furnishing repairs, supplies, towage, use of dry dock or marine railway, or other necessaries, to any vessel, whether foreign or domestic, upon the order of the owner of such vessel, or of a person authorized by the owner, shall have a maritime lien on the vessel, which may be enforced by suit in rem, and it shall not be necessary to allege or prove that credit was given to the vessel.” Subsection P of section 30, Act of June 5, 1920, 41 Stat. 1005 (U. S. Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1923, § 8146 <mo)-”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Burton S. S. Co.