259 F. Supp. 187 - Silver v. the Sloop Silver Cloud’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Employers Insurance of Wausau v. Suwannee River Spa Lines Inc (1989), Jones v. One Fifty Foot Gulfstar Motor Sailing Yacht, Hull No. 01 (1980)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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.
Relationships
Relies on Kossick v. United Fruit Co. · William Tucker v. Leo Alexandroff · the Francis McDonald Thames Towboat Co v. The Francis McDonald · International Typographical Union v. National Labor Relations Board · Great Western Serum Co. v. United States
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the right to bring a possessory or petitory suit requires [i] the existence of a maritime question ... [and] [ii] that the action [must be] one to recover possession rather than to obtain original possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in that case, plaintiffs had conceded, '[T]he dispute ... is not over the title to the boat but as to how much is owed by defendant to plaintiff or by plaintiff to defendant regarding the extras.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A petitory suit is defined as one seeking to try title to a vessel independently of possession.” Silver v. Sloop Silver Cloud, 259 F.Supp. 187, 191 (S.D.N.Y.1966). 2 .”
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.