Donald L. Roberts and Roswell I. Sawyer v. Hans C. T. Echternach’s Empirical Analysis
302 F.2d 370 · 1962
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1983
17 federal appellate ·
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 McAllister v. United States · In Re Disbarment of Isserman · Point Landing, Inc. v. Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Co. · H. W. Findley, Owner v. Henry P. Lanasa, Libelant · Colonial Press of Miami, Inc. v. Allen's Cay
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any person furnishing repairs, supplies, towage, use of dry dock or marine railway, or other necessaries, to any vessel, whether foreign or domestic, upon the order of the owner of such vessel, or of a person authorized by the owner, shall have a maritime lien on the vessel, which may be enforced by suit in rem, and it shall not be necessary to allege or prove that credit was given to the vessel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“That clause, and the two sections of the Maritime Lien Act upon which it operates, has to do with the power of others--master, agent, charterer, etc.--to subject the vessel to liens for work done by third parties at the request of those presuming to speak for the ship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the circumstances in which the owner could restrict his own power [to subject the vessel to liens] are severely limited and one could safely say, never to permit the owner, as such, to obtain any advantage.”
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.