The Santa Barbara’s Empirical Analysis
263 F. 369 · 1920
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1959
4 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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 The Osceola · John A. Roebling's Sons Co. of New York v. Erickson · Hanrahan v. Pacific Transport Co. · The Santa Barbara
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The chains were supplied; whether unseaworthiness would have resulted, had that not been done, is a matter not before us. Whether they should be ‘maintained,’ or retained in the pulleys, and left stretched along the guys, contributing weight without strength, while the steamer tossed at sea, is a matter wholly within the discretion of the captain. If that discretion was unwisely exercised, it was at most no more than his personal negligence" in handling or mishandling good and proper appliances duly furnished by the owners. As nothing was defective in lit or material, and everything suggested as proper, oven by libelant’s proctor, was provided for the ship, we hold that no unseaworthiness was shown."””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.