Riegel v. Higgins’s Empirical Analysis
241 F. 718 · 1917
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1950
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Releases by seamen are never conclusive, except when made knowingly and intentionally, and with a full understanding of the situation.’ This being true, the doubt should be resolved in favor of the libelant. A court should be slow to hold that a release becomes operative as to a matter of liability of which the releasing party may have been in ignorance, and which, in fairly interpreting the document, was not in contemplation of the parties when it was made. Tug Ross Coddingtort, 40 F.(2d) -- 1924 A. M. C. 615 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Adonis
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.