H. W. Findley, Owner v. Henry P. Lanasa, Libelant’s Empirical Analysis
276 F.2d 907 · 1960
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 1987 · most notably Compagnie De Navigation Fraissinet & Cyprien Fabre v. Mondial United Corp. (1963), Payne v. SS Tropic Breeze (1970)
23 federal appellate · 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 John G. Stevens · Point Landing, Inc. v. Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co. · Standard Oil Co. v. Kongo · The Kongo
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“repairs, supplies, towage, use of dry dock or marine railway, or other necessaries * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is a lot of family on both sides of this transaction involving the good ship S/S Josephine Lanasa. * * * The advance being made by one brother to the master in the employ of the other for the purpose of defraying expenses for charterer's account gave the Court considerable pause. This general circumstance of suspicion was enhanced by other factors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * seamen's wages * * * are sacred liens, and, as long as a plank of the ship remains, the sailor is entitled, against all other persons, to the proceeds as a security for his wages”
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.