Piedmont & Georges Creek Coal Co. v. Seaboard Fisheries Co.’s Empirical Analysis
254 U.S. 1 · 1920
Citation profile
178 federal appellate · 71 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 479 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Mahnich v. Southern Steamship Co. (1944), United States v. Carver (1923)
178 federal appellate · 71 district · 11 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
reviewedSeaboard Fisheries Co. v. Piedmont & Georges Creek Coal Co. (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on La Bourgogne · Robert Vandewater v. Edward Mills · The Germanic · The General Smith
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 479 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t may operate to the prejudice of prior mortgagees or of purchasers without notice. It is therefore stricti juris and will not be extended by construction, analogy or inference.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The fact found by the lower courts that the parties understood the law would afford a lien on the vessels for the coal is, in this controversy, without legal significance.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it shall not be necessary to allege or prove that credit was given to the vessel.”
5 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.