The Federal No. 2’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.2d 313 · 1927
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2013 · most notably Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co. v. Flint (1927), 22 Cal. 3d 157 - Offshore Rental Co. v. Continental Oil Co. (1978)
29 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on The Osceola · Liverpool & Great Western Steam Co. v. Phenix Insurance · Insurance Company v. Brame · George Fuller Co v. Otis Elevator Co · Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. New York & New Haven 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is too indirect to insist that [the hospital bills and maintenance] may be recovered, where there is neither the natural right nor legal relationship between the appellant and the tug.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he tug [the alleged tortfeasor] owed no legal duty to the appellant with reference to its contractual rights with the seaman.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he seaman had a cause of action against the tug for negligence,”
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.