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28 F. 762 · 1886
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1935
4 federal appellate · 2 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 Tornado Ellis v. Atlantic Mut Ins Co · The "Julia Blake" · Keyser v. Harbeck
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There can be no doubt that there is an implied warranty on the part of the carrier that his vessel shall he seaworthy, not only when she begins to take cargo on board, but when she breaks ground for the voyage. The theory of the law is that the implied warranty of seaworthiness shall protect tin- owner of the cargo until ids policy of insurance commences to run; and, as it is well settled (hat ilie risk under the policy attaches only from the time the vessel breaks ground, this is lised ¡is the point: up to which the warranty of seaworthiness extends.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. The Caledonia · Bowring v. Thebaud“no degree of seaworthiness for the voyage at any time anterior to the commencement of the risk will be of any avail to the assured, unless that seaworthiness existed at the time of sailing from the port of loading. As, therefore, the merchant in a case like the present would not be entitled to recover against his underwriter by reason of the breach of warranty in sailing in an unseaworthy ship, it would follow that, if the warranty to be implied on the part of the shipowner is to be exhausted by his having the ship seaworthy at an anterior period, the merchant would lose that .complete indemnity, by means of the two contracts taken together, which, it is the universal habit and practice of mercantile men to endeavor to secure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. The Caledonia
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.