Gerber v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
278 F. 886 · 1922
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2003 · most notably Collie v. Fergusson (1930), Payne v. SS Tropic Breeze (1970)
10 federal appellate · 7 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 Covert v. The British Brig Wexford · Burns v. Baylis
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The master or owner of any vessel making coastwise voyages shall pay to every seaman his wages within two days after the termination of the agreement under which he was shipped, or at the time such seaman is discharged, whichever first happens. . . . Every master or owner who refuses or neglects to make payment in the manner hereinbefore mentioned, without sufficient cause, shall pay to the seaman a sum equal to two days’ pay for each and every day during which payment is delayed . . ., which sum shall be recoverable as wages in any claim made before the Court . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collie v. Fergusson“an incident to the claim of wages proper”
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.