The Beaver’s Empirical Analysis
219 F. 139 · 1915
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 1958
2 federal appellate · 3 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 Leary v. United States · The Volund · Clyde Commercial S. S. Co. v. West India S. S. Co. · The Beaver · Luckenbach v. Insular Line
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.
““Tlie parties to this appeal are agreed as to the value of those respective items, but the appellant contends here, as in the other case, that the disaster was caused by the joint fault of the two ships, and that because of the fault of the Selja the appellee is entitled to recover only subject to the rule of cross-liabilities.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The charterer in the present case, having nothing whatever to do 'with the navigation of the Selja, upon the most obvious principles of justice cannot be held in any way responsible for the negligence of her master, who, in. the matter of her navigation, was the agent of her owner, and not the agent of the charterer.””
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.