Barnouw v. The S.S. Ozark’s Empirical Analysis
304 F.2d 717 · 1962
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably Flunker v. United States (1975), West Winds Inc v. Mv Resolute Mv (1983)
15 federal appellate · 2 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 Merchants & Marine Bank v. Fishing Vessel T. E. Welles · Brandon v. S. S. Denton · Irving Trust Co. v. the Steamscrew Golden Sail · Gulf Oil Corp. v. Texas City Refining, Inc.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'so long as the same debt, or some part of it, subsists, the presumption ordinarily is that the new mortgage is intended as a renewal of the old, and the continuance of the same security.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Shipowner as debtor was the same and the creditor was still Wall Street Traders, Inc., [the mortgagee named in the 1958 mortgage]. The only difference was that instead of being the holder of a single promissory note, it now became the named payee in 7 negotiable bonds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The result is that by operation of law and the intention of the parties, the 1959 mortgage carried with it the 1958 mortgage and the 1957 mortgage as well.”
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.