Panama Co v. Rock’s Empirical Analysis
266 U.S. 209 · 1924
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1998 · most notably Moragne v. States Marine Lines, Inc. (1970), United States v. Atlantic Mutual Insurance (1952)
6 federal appellate · 13 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
reviewedPanama R. v. Rock (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on The Harrisburg · Dennick v. Railroad Co. · La Bourgogne · Johnson v. United States · Insurance Company v. Brame
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(I)t seems to me that courts in dealing with statutes sometimes have been too slow to recognize that statutes even when in terms covering only particular cases may imply a policy different from that of the common law, and therefore [the courts] may exclude a reference to the common law for the purpose of limiting their scope. Johnson v. United States [5 Cir.], 163 F. 30, 32 . Without going into the reasons for the notion that an action (other than an appeal) does not lie for causing the death of a human being, it is enough to say that they have disappeared. The policy that forbade such an action, if it was more profound than the absence of a remedy when a man's body was hanged and his goods confiscated for the felony, has been shown not to be the policy of present law by statutes of the United States and of most if not all of the States. [1] [Emphasis mine.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“depends wholly upon statutory authority.”
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.