Barton v. Borit’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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

1. “* * * such as is established by contemporaneous sales of like property in the way of ordinary business, as in the case of merchandise bought and sold in the market, * * *.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 125 F. Supp. 2d 981 - In Re American Milling Co. · Oliver J. Olson & Co., a Corporation, Libelant v. The American Steamship Marine Leopard, Etc., and Luckenbach Steamship Company, Inc., a Corporation, Luckenbach Steamship Company, Inc., a Corporation, Libelant v. Oliver J. Olson & Co., a Corporation, Petition of Oliver J. Olson & Co., a Corporation, for Exoneration From, or Limitation Of, Liability, as Owner and Operator of the Steamship Howard Olson

2. “Only if it should appear that there was no market [for vessels similar to the Edgar M. Queeny] or there were so few sales of like (ships) that it could not be predicted with any assurance that the prices paid would be repeated in a postulated sale of the (ship) in question, may resort be had to other relevant indicia of value such as replacement cost appropriately deducted.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 125 F. Supp. 2d 981 - In Re American Milling Co.

3. “the sum which, considering all the circumstances, probably could have been obtained for her on the date of the collision; that is, the sum that in all probability would result from fair negotiations between an owner willing to sell and a purchaser willing to buy.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Complaint of North American Trailing Co.