The Kennebec’s Empirical Analysis
231 F. 423 · 1916
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2008
3 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 Upton Assignee v. Tribilcock · Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York v. Nellie Phinney C · The Elfrida · Territory of New Mexico v. United States Trust Co. · The Flottbek
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] salvage service is a service voluntarily rendered to a vessel needing assistance, and is designed to relieve her from some distress or danger either present or to be reasonably apprehended. A towage service is one which is rendered for the mere purpose of expediting her voyage, without reference to any circumstances of danger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Though a service is one which helps to save a vessel endangered at sea, a valid contract by one party to pay at all events, and by the other to receive either a fixed or reasonable compensation for such service, is as conclusive as any other valid contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A * * * contract by one party to pay at all events, and by the other to receive a fixed compensation for a salvage service” to be rendered, “is as conclusive as any other valid contract””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.