The London’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 4 district ·

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

1. “"Kvory Minan on a vessel of the United States shall be entitled to receive on demand from the master of the vessel to which he belongs one-half part of the wages which he shall have then earned at every port where such vessel, after tile voyage has been commenced, shall load or deliver cargo before the voyage is ended and all stipulations In the contract to the contrary shall bo void: Provided, such a demand shall not be made before the expiration of, nor oftener than once In live days. Any failure on the part of the master to comply with this demand shall release the seaman from his contract and he shall be entitled to full payment of wages earned. And when the voyage Is ended every such seaman shall be entitled to the remainder of the wages which shall then be due him, as provided in section forty-live hundred and twenty-nine of the Revised Statutes: Provided further, that notwithstanding any release signed by any seaman under section forty-live hundred and iilty-two of the Revised Statutes any court having jurisdiction may upon good cause shown set aside such release and take such action as justice shall require: And provided further, that this section shall apply to seamen on foreign vessels while in harbors of the United States, and the courts of the United States shall be open to such seamen for its enforcement.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sandberg v. McDonald · The Thor

2. ““In adopting half payment to the seaman during the voyage and half retention by the ship until the voyage was over, Congress gave a substantial portion of earned wages to the seaman while he was earning them, and retained a substantial portion of the earned wages in the hands of the master as security that the seaman'would stick by the ship until the voyage, for which both ship and seaman had,contracted, was ended. This half and half division of wages earned to any time wlien payment is to be made is workable, is equitable, and is clearly stated in the act, and to our mind was what Congress had in view in the statute.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Sutherland

3. ““That when a vessel arrives at any port of loading or discharge the seaman is entitled to be paid one-half of the wages he has up to that time earned, and that against such one-half which be can demand there must be charged all prior payments he has received.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. The Thor