The Saturnus’s Empirical Analysis
250 F. 407 · 1918
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2002 · most notably Krauss Bros. Lumber v. Dimon Steamship Corp. (1933), Rainbow Line, Inc. v. M/v Tequila (Ex Linglee), Her Engines, Tackle, Boiler, Equipment, Etc. Empire Commercial Corporation, Claimant-Appellant (1973)
20 federal appellate · 11 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 George Crossman v. William Burrill · The Monte A. · Scott v. Ira Chaffee · Guffey v. Alaska & P. S. S. Co. · Milburn v. Federal Sugar Refining Co. of Yonkers
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Merchant and mariner alike subject the'ir property to the municipal law of every country into which their venture comes, but a maritime lien is as near an approach to jus gentium as can be found in private jurisprudence, and any extension thereof not internationally well founded is to be opposed as jealously as is a denial of its accepted extent.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The ancient and customary lien of the sea is not maintained, nor was it created (so far as history reveals its origin) for the convenience or assurance of parties, but for the encouragement of commerce and shipping as a presumed benefit to the public, in respect of an occupation hazardous and uncertain beyond most land ventures.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for an expense put on a shipper and not caused by physical damage to goods actually carried by the act of transport.”
2 later decisions 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.