Guibert & Sons v. The British Ship George Bell’s Empirical Analysis
3 F. 581 · 1880
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1970
3 federal appellate · 4 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 Amiable Nancy · Walsh v. United States · The Vaughan and Telegraph
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.
““It is clearly to be excluded, under the rule hereinbefore adverted to. The probable earnings of a vessel have sometimes been considered in cases of partial loss in collisions, when there was no other means of ascertaining the loss to the owner by the detention of his vessel while being repaired; but in cases of total loss interest from the date of destruction is given in lieu of the profit which might have been gained by the owner by the subsequent use of his vessel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Menominee
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.