Hatch v. The Steam-Boat Boston’s Empirical Analysis
3 F. 807 · 1880
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1934
2 federal appellate · 3 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 Chaffee & Co. v. United States · The Rock Island Bridge · Pliny Cutler v. William a Rae
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It shall not be lawful to take on board of any steamer a greater number -of passengers than is stated In the certificate of Inspection and for every violation of this provision the master or owner shall be liable to any person ■suing for the same to forfeit the amount of the passage money and ten dollars for each passenger beyond the number allowed.””
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.