The Merrimac’s Empirical Analysis
29 F. 157 · 1886
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1994
4 federal appellate · 5 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the boat belongs to the owner, it is considered as attached to the vessel, and passes by usage in the sale of the vessel, though not mentioned in the bill of sale.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Geisha
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.