The John L. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
231 F. 507 · 1916
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1964
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 The Emily Souder · The Kalorama · Thomas v. Osborn · The Patapsco · Pratt v. Reed
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“both mercantile corporations, were wholesale dealers in groceries, machinery, and marine supplies at Norfolk, Va. The Atlantic Phosphate & Oil Corporation, a Néw York concern, was the owner of the steam fishing vessels, John L. Lawrence, Portland, Nat Strong, and Adroit, which were chartered to the Carolina Coast Products Company, a corporation of which one”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““I can perceive no valid reason why, unless for some other cause the libelants are deprived of a maritime lien, they may not have filed their libel upon each of the steamers for the entire amount and recovered the whole amount out of either of them.””
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.