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23 F. 43 · 1885
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2011 · most notably Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki (1946), Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen (1917)
13 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 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 Devlin v. . Smith · The City of Alexandria · Kain v. . Smith · The Explorer
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is more reasonable and equitable to apply the analogies of the municipal law in regard to the obligation of owners and masters, rather than to extend the limited rule of responsibility under the ancient maritime law to these new, modern conditions, for which those limitations were never designed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A seaman on board ship has not -the privilege of using his own judgment, or of quitting the ship’s service if he apprehends danger, like an ordinary workman on shore. If owners cannot be held as insurers of the appliances furnished to the ship for the safety of seamen, they ought, at least, to be held to the strictest rule of diligence and care.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Colusa““There is no question that in modern maritime law, the owners are responsible for due care and diligence in the proper equipment of the vessel "or the contingencies o£ the voyage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. Bortz
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.