Anderson v. Pacific Coast Steamship Co.’s Empirical Analysis
225 U.S. 187 · 1912
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 15 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions (41 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2022 · most notably Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen (1917), Simpson v. Shepard (1913)
75 federal appellate · 15 district · 27 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Logan v. United States · 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 · Ex parte McNiel · Steamship Company v. Joliffe
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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it will not be inferred that Congress, in revising and consolidating the laws, intended to change their effect unless such intention is clearly expressed.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The purpose of a register is to declare the nationality of a vessel . . . and to enable her to assert that nationality wherever found.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When the Constitution of the United States was adopted, each state had its own regulations of pilotage. While this subject was embraced within the grant of the power ‘to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states’ (art. 1, § 8), Congress did not supersede the state leg islation, but by the act of August 7, 1789, chap. 9, § 4 (1 Stat. at L. 53, 54, Rev.Stat. § 4235, U.S.Comp.Stat.1901, p. 2903), it was enacted that ‘all pilots in the bays, inlets, rivers, harbors, and ports of the United States, shall continue to to be regulated in conformity with the existing laws of the states respectively wherein such pilots may be, or with such laws as the states may respectively hereafter enact for the purpose, until further legislative provision shall be made by Congress.’ This was ‘a clear and authoritative declaration by the first Congress, that the nature of this subject is such that until Congress should find is necessary to exercise its power it should be left to the legislation of the states;’ and it has long been established by the decisions of this court that, although state laws concerning pilotage are regulations of commerce, they fall within that class of powers which may be exercised by the states until Congress shall see fit to act.” 225 U.S. at 195 , 32 S.Ct. at 629 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Warner v. Replinger
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.