Fay v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1992
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Potomac · Bank Line, Ltd. v. United States · Mosseller v. United States · Fleming v. Bernardi · Naylor v. Isthmian S. S. Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The deposition of a private corporation may be taken by the master of its vessel who is in control of the vessel at the time of the injury for which suit is brought ... [omitting citations] even though the person formally serving as master is serving as the chief mate of another vessel at the time the defendant’s deposition is sought.”
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.