Sonsmith v. The J. P. Donaldson’s Empirical Analysis
21 F. 671 · 1884
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1954
1 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 New Jersey Steam Navigation Company v. The Merchants' Bank of Boston · Dupont De Nemours Co v. John Vance et al. · Russell Sturgis v. Herman Boyer · Alexander Lawrence v. Charles Minturn · Barnard v. Adams
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it must be admitted that no judicial precedent to that effect has been found in the decisions of either English or American courts; and that the case, as put, lacks the necessary element of a common interest, united by consent of several owners,- delivered by the authorized act of 'a common agent, from an imminent peril threatening the whole, by the voluntary sacrifice of a part.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ralli v. Troop
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.