Oceanic Steam Navigation Co. v. Mellor’s Empirical Analysis
233 U.S. 718 · 1914
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 20 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2007 · most notably Lauritzen v. Larsen (1953), Carlisle Packing Co. v. Sandanger (1922)
48 federal appellate · 20 district · 7 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on The Harrisburg · Huntington v. Attrill · Cohens v. Virginia · American Banana Company v. United Fruit Company · Liverpool & Great Western Steam Co. v. Phenix Insurance
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a liability assumed already to exist on other grounds.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“might be applied to foreign ships if sued in this country although they were not subject to our substantive law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A. Whether, in the case of a disaster upon the high seas, where (1) only a single vessel of British nationality is concerned and there are claimants of many different nationalities; and where (2) there is nothing before the court to show what, if any, is the law of the foreign country to which the vessel belongs, touching the owner's liability for such disaster, such owner can maintain a proceeding under §§ 4283-4285 U.S. Revised Statutes and the 54th and 56th Rules in Admiralty?”
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.