Nos 329 23998’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2000
2 district · 2 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 Conqueror · District of Columbia v. Woodbury · The " Potomac" · Noonan v. Caledonia Gold Min Co · American Mail Line, Ltd. v. Skagit River Navigation & Trading 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Interest on damages from the date of the collision is frequently allowed where the vessel is lost, rather than merely dam aged. But where the vessel is a total loss, its owner may not recover demur-rage, and unless allowed interest from the time of the collision there will be some period during which he will have been deprived of the use of his vessel or her money equivalent without compensation. But to grant both demurrage, which theoretically includes the owner’s return on his risk capital, and interest on the owner’s outlay for repairs before the outlay is made, is to put the owner in a better position than he would have been but for the collision. Hence where the vessel is damaged, rather than lost, and the owner may therefore recover damages for detention, interest on repairs generally commences on the date of disbursement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * where, as here, complete repairs have been made, the amount of recovery may not exceed the actual cost, even though a greater expenditure would have been within range of reasonable cost.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““These (an allowance of interest and costs) are matters as to which the District Court has a wide discretion. 3 Benedict, Admiralty § 419 (interest on damages), § 435 (costs).””
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.