Robert Oliver v. James Alexander’s Empirical Analysis

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39 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions

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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The whole proceeding,' therefore, from the beginning to the end of the suit, though it assumes the form of a joint suit, is, in reality, a mere joinder of distinct causes of action, by distinct parties, growing out of the same contract. * * * The claim of each seaman is distinct and several; and the decree upon each claim is, in like manner, distinct and several. One seaman cannot appeal from the decree made in regard to the claim of another; for he has no interest in it, and cannot be aggrieved by it. The controversy, so far as he is concerned, is confined solely to his own claim; and the matter of dispute between him and the owners or other respondents is the sum or value of his own claim, without any reference to the claims of others.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gibson v. Shufeldt · Short v. The Columbia

2. “The present is a case of seamen's wages, in which there is necessarily a several and distinct contract with each seaman, for the voyage, at his own rate of wages....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Thorman v. American Seafoods Co. · Thorman v. American Seafoods Co.