The Bouker No. 2’s Empirical Analysis
241 F. 831 · 1917
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 21 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2012 · most notably Kossick v. United Fruit Co. (1961), Calmar Ss Corporation v. Taylor (1938)
46 federal appellate · 21 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
Relationships
Relies on The Osceola · The City of Alexandria · San Jose Land Water Company v. San Jose Ranch Company · Peterson v. The Chandos · The Mars
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.
““By the custom of the sea the hiring of sailors has for centuries included food and lodging at the expense of the ship. This is their maintenance, and the origin of the word indicates the kind and to a certain extent the quantum of assistance due the sailor from his ship.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““On reason, also, we have no doubt that the seaman’s right to curative effort should not cease with the wage period. The demand constitutes a lien, not for any specific sum of money, but for whatever reasonable sum may be appropriate to discharge that lien, which lien arose once and for all, and in its entirety, when the mariner became ill or wounded in the ship’s service.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The E. H. Russell
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.