Old Dominion Steamship Company v. Primus Gilmore’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 13 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2015 · most notably Chelentis v. Luckenbach Steamship Co. (1918), Skiriotes v. Florida (1941)
9 federal appellate · 13 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Osceola · Aaron Cooley v. The Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia to the Use of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Pilots Their Widows and Children Same · Martin Fairfax v. Hunter's · The Belgenland · Slater v. Mexican National Railroad
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We construe the statute as intended to govern all cases which it is competent to govern, or at least not to be confined to deaths occasioned on land, etc.””
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.