Putnam v. Lower’s Empirical Analysis
236 F.2d 561 · 1956
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Standard Oil Co. v. Perkins (1965), 30 Colo. App. 10 - Colorado Civil Rights Com'n v. STATE, SCH. DIST. NO. 1 (1971)
21 federal appellate · 7 district · 8 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 United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · McAllister v. United States · In Re Disbarment of Isserman · Swift & Co. Packers v. Compania Colombiana Del Caribe, S. A. · United States v. Behan
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The jurisdiction of courts of admiralty over the wage claims of seamen is anciently established.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“would logically lead a prudent person to believe his [or her] tenure had been terminated.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is well settled that no maritime lien can be allowed to seamen for wages accruing subsequent to the time the ship is taken into custodia legis . . . The theory here is that the act of seizing a ship, pursuant to legal process, effectively terminates the voyage, and thereby discharges the crew with no further claim for wages .... Putnam, 236 F.2d at 570 (footnote omitted). Thus,”
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.