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24 F. 472 · 1885
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1970
4 federal appellate · 10 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 Root v. Railway Co. · The Quickstep · The Grapeshot · The Erinagh · The Samuel J. Christian
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The maritime lien of damage originating in the wrong of the master and crew of the vessel in fault, and founded on considerations of public policy, for the prevention of careless navigation, takes precedence, within the limits which the law assigns to the indemnification of the injured party, even though anterior in date of liens ex contractu. It absorbs, in the event of the res proving insufficient to meet all demands, the liens of wages, towage, pilotage, and bottomry, leaving them to be enforced by proceedings against the persons of the owners. Were it otherwise, the owners to whom the damage is imputed would be indemnified at the expense of the injured party; the wrong-doers, at the cost of him to whom the wrong is done.” Abb. Shipp. 621.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.