The Chester’s Empirical Analysis
25 F.2d 908 · 1928
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2000
8 federal appellate · 3 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 United States v. Carver · Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Federal Trade Commission · Gerber v. Spencer · Mystic S. S. Co. v. Stromland · Covert v. The British Brig Wexford
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]oney payable ... as [penalty] wages ... is payable essentially as wages, and not penalties.... [I]t is axiomatic that seamen have a lien upon the vessel for their wages. Thus it follows that they must also have a lien for any and all sums payable under [the penalty wages statute], and not merely a right to enforce a personal claim against the master or owner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n spite of the seeming rigidity of the statute, there is still left to the courts certain discretionary power to limit the penalties”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.