Rounds v. Cloverport Foundry & Machine Co.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 federal appellate · 27 district · 37 state decisions

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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““If * * * ttie cause of action be not one of which a court of admiralty has jurisdiction, or if the suit be in personam against an individual defendant, with an auxiliary attachment against a particular thing, or against the property of the defendant in general, it is essentially a proceeding according to the course of the common law, and within the saving clause of the statute (section 563) of a common-law remedy.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Red Cross Line v. Atlantic Fruit Co. · Keithley v. North Pac. S. S. Co.

2. “The proceeding in rem which is within the exclusive jurisdiction of admiralty is one essentially against the vessel itself as the debtor or offending thing, — in which the vessel is itself ‘ seized and' impleaded as the defendant, and is judgecLand sentenced accordingly.’”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ex parte United States · Larson v. Alaska Steamship Co.

3. “[slinee the common law is competent in all cases where the suit is in personam, a plaintiff in such causes may elect either to proceed in admiralty or to bring an ordinary civil action, either at law in state court or in a federal district court”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. BDG International, Inc. v. Bowers · Larson v. Alaska Steamship Co.