Bainbridge v. Merchants & Miners Transportation Co.’s Empirical Analysis
287 U.S. 278 · 1932
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 6 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2011 · most notably Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Arabian American Oil Co. (1991), American Dredging Co. v. Miller (1994)
34 federal appellate · 6 district · 32 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 Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Panama Co v. Johnson · Engel v. Davenport · Minneapolis St Louis Railroad Company v. George Bombolis
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Seamen have always been regarded as wards of the admiralty, and their rights, wrongs, and injuries a special subject of the admiralty jurisdiction. The policy of Congress, as evidenced by its legislation, has been to deal with them as a favored class.” (citations omitted)). 6 . Benedict on Admiralty succinctly states the conclusion compelled by precedent and a review of the intent behind the maritime lien system:”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the question were more doubtful than we think it is, we should be slow to impute to Congress an intention, if it has the power, to interfere with the statutory provisions of the various states fixing the venue .of their own courts. It follows that the venue should have been determined by the trial court in accordance with the law of the state.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“§ 837. Suits by seamen without prepayment of or bond for costs. Courts of the United States, including appellate courts, hereafter shall be open to seamen, without furnishing bonds or prepayment of or making deposit to secure fees or costs, for the purpose of entering and prosecuting suit or suits in their own name and for their own benefit for wages or salvage and to enforce laws made for their health and safety.”
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.