Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
274 U.S. 611 · 1927
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 10 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2007 · most notably U.S. Dominator, Inc. v. Factory Ship Robert E. Resoff (1985), Mississippi Valley Barge Line Co. v. Indian Towing Co. (1956)
20 federal appellate · 10 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 The "Sabine" · United States v. Cornell Steamboat Co. · Federal Trade Commission v. American Tobacco Co. · J. Homer Fritch, Inc. 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(S)alvage cannot be exacted for assistance forced upon a ship.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“While salvage cannot be exacted for assistance forced upon a ship, her request for or express acceptance of the service is not always essential to the validity of the claim. It is enough if, under the circumstances, any prudent man would have accepted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the absence of request for or acceptance of the service.”
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.